Introduction to the fourth edition of the Handbook of public administration / Evert Lindquist, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller -- A transfer-of-idea approach to the history of public administration : the hybridizations of administrative traditions / Céline Mavrot, Christian Rosser, Fritz Sager, Pascal Hurni -- The administrative presidency and the degradation of the United States civil service / William G. Resh -- The idea of administrative law and the expansion of the administrative state / Lorne Sossin -- The challenges of discretion, collaboration, and ambiguity for administrative law : researchable themes & issues / Christine Ledvinka Rush -- Federalism and multilevel governance : contexts for public administration / Herman Bakvis -- Concurrent sourcing in public services : theory, evidence and future research / Simon Porcher -- Multilevel network governance in emergency management / Qian Hu & Naim Kapucu -- The many publics of government organizations / John Clayton Thomas & John Alford -- Engaging citizens, clients and communities for policy and service delivery / Robyn Keast -- Complexity in public management : perspectives, institutions and practices / Elizabeth Eppel, Mary Lee Rhodes, Lasse Gerritts -- How complexity informs public policy and administrative practice : selected international cases / Mary-Lee Rhodes, Lasse Gerrits, and Elizabeth Eppel -- The enmeshment of the machine in complex governance processes and networks / Lasse Gerrits, Elizabeth Eppel, Mary Lee Rhodes -- From theories to practice : the ongoing search for control, efficiency, transparency and results in government / Katherine G. Willoughby -- Conformity and diversity in budgetary systems : aspirations, routines, and recalibration / John Wanna -- Performance management : experience and challenges / Tom Christensen & Per Laegrid -- Aptitude, accountability, and adaptation : research themes for public budgeting, financial management, and accountability / Justin Marlowe -- Developing public servants : international trends in human resource management / Rex L. Facer -- Human resource reforms in South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States / Charlene Roach, Shahrin Shabnam Upoma, Meghna Sabharwal, Hugo Renderos -- Rapid advances in HRM technologies and public employment systems : a research agenda for acquiring and managing talent / Jared Llorens -- The policy cycle and policy theory : from theory-building to policy making / Catheine Althaus & David Threlfall -- Agenda-setting in comparative perspective : contrasting policy-making in France, the United Kingdom and the United States / Emiliano Grossman & Friederike Richter -- The policy cycle : moving from heuristic to a theory-informed research agenda / Evert Lindquist & Adam Wellstead.