Edited by Walter J.M. Kickert, Professor of Public Management, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Richard J. Stillman, II, Professor of Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver, US

• Contents: Foreword: Modern Public Administration as Model and Portent Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. The Waxing and Waning of the State and its Study: Changes and Challenges in the Study of Public Administration Part II: The United States 3. Public Administration in the United States Part III: Large European Countries 4. Public Administration in Etatist France 5. Administrative Science as Reform: German Public Administration 6. Public Administration in the United Kingdom: Living with an Identity Crisis? 7. Public Administration and Administrative Science in Spain Part IV: Smaller Continental European Countries 8. Expansion and Diversification of Public Administration in the Postwar Welfare State: The Case of the Netherlands 9. Between Anglo-Saxon Behavioralism and Continental Law: Scandinavian Public Administration 10. Switzerland: Emerging Administrative Sciences within Federalism and Direct Democracy Part V: Central and Eastern European Countries 11. Transitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland: Autonomy and Community among Nation States Part VI: Conclusion 12. American versus European Public Administration: Does Public Administration make the Modern State, or does the State make Public Administration? Index

'. . . the highlight of the collection is a contribution by Stillman that connects the American study of public administration to an antistatist tradition. It is learned, lucid and provides a set of ideas that clarify the hotchpotch of the literature.'