ABSTRACT

This is the first volume of a four-volume encyclopaedia which combines public administration and policy and contains approximately 900 articles by over 300 specialists. This Volume covers entries from A to C. It covers all of the core concepts, terms and processes of applied behavioural science, budgeting, comparative public administration, develo

Editorial Board -- Foreword -- Preface -- A -- Ability to Pay -- Absenteeism -- Absolute Immunity -- Accountability -- Accounting -- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Policy -- Acronym -- Action Learning -- Action Research -- Action Theory -- Active Listening -- Adjudication -- Administocracy -- Administration -- Administrative Conservatorship -- Administrative Corporatism -- Administrative Discretion -- Administrative Disinvestment -- Administrative Fiction -- Administrative Law -- Administrative Law Judge -- Administrative Modernization in African Developing Countries -- Administrative Morality -- Administrative Natural Justice -- Administrative Policies -- Administrative Praxis -- Administrative Procedure Acts -- Administrative Searches and Seizures -- Administrative State -- Adversary System -- Adverse Impact -- Advocacy -- Advocacy Organizations -- Affirmative Action -- Affirmative Action Plan -- AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations) -- African Administrative Tradition -- Agency -- Agency Budget Success -- Agency Mission -- Agency Theory -- Al-Farabi, Abu Al-Nassar Mohammed (872-950) -- Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamed Mohammed Ahmad (1058-1111) -- Al-Marwardi, Abu Al-Hassan Ali Bin Habeeb Al-Basri (957-1058) -- Alcoholism -- Alienation -- Alternative Dispute Resolution -- Alternative Fund -- American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel, Inc. (AAFRC) -- American Administrative Tradition -- Annexation -- Annual Campaign -- Antitrust -- Applied Behavioral Science (ABS) -- Apprentice -- Appropriate Technology -- Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) -- Arbitrary and Capricious Behavior -- Archives -- Argyris, Chris (1923-) -- Arts Administration (Arts Management) -- Aspirational Management -- Assessment Center -- Association for Research on Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) -- Association Management -- Asymmetrical Federalism -- At-Risk Populations -- Audit -- Auditor General -- Australian Administrative Tradition -- Authority -- B -- Backbencher -- Balanced Budget Requirement -- Balancing Test -- Barnard, Chester I. (1886-1961) -- Battered Women's Movement -- Benefit-Cost Analysis -- Bentham, Jeremy (1748-1832) -- Best Practices -- The Beveridge Report -- Biennial Budgeting -- Bill of Attainder -- The Bill of Rights -- Bismarck, Otto Von (1815-1898) -- Blacksburg Manifesto -- Board of Directors -- Boundaryless -- Brainstorming -- The British Administrative Tradition to 1914 -- British Administrative Tradition from 1914 -- Broadcasting Policy -- Brownlow Commission -- Budget Adjustments, City -- Budget Analyst -- Budget Projection, Baseline -- Budget Control -- Budget Cycle -- Budget Ethics -- Budget Format -- Budget Guidance -- Budget Patterns -- Budget Reform -- Budget Strategy -- Budget Success -- Budget Theory -- Budget Tools, Commonsense -- Budgeting -- Budgeting and Poverty -- Burden of Proof -- Burden Sharing -- Bureaucracy -- Bureaucrat Bashing -- Bureaucrat, Budget Maximizing -- Bureaupathology -- Burnout -- Businesslike Management -- Bylaws -- C -- Cabinet Government -- Cabinet Office -- Campaign Management -- Canon Law -- Capacity Building -- Capital Budgeting -- Capital Campaign -- Capital Investments -- Career Counseling -- Career Development -- Career Ladder -- Case Statement -- Case Study -- Cash Management -- Causality -- Cause-Related Marketing -- Centrally Planned Economy -- Certification of Eligibles -- Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE) -- Certiorari -- Challenge Gift -- Chaos Theory -- Charisma -- Charitable Contributions -- Charitable Organization ("Charity") -- Chief Financial Officer -- Child Labor -- Chinese Administrative Tradition -- Christian Democracy -- Circuit Rider -- Citizen Participation -- Citizen's Charter -- Citizenship Ethics -- Civil Law -- Civil Liberties -- Civil Service Commission -- Civil Service Examinations -- Civil Service Reform -- Class Action -- Client Orientation -- Codes of Conduct -- Codes of Ethics -- Code Word -- Cognitive Dissonance -- Collective Bargaining -- Collective Responsibility -- Colonial Liberalism -- Combined Operations -- Command -- Commercialization -- Commitment, Employee -- Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) -- Communitarianism -- Community Control -- Community Foundations -- Community Policing -- Community Power -- Comparable Worth -- Comparative Public Administration -- Comparative Public Budgeting -- Compensation Policy -- Competence -- Competition Policy -- Competitive Tendering -- Comprehensive Planning -- Conflict Management -- Conflict Management, Organizational -- Conflict of Interest -- Conflict Resolution -- Congressional Budget Office -- Congressional Budget Process -- Congressional Government -- Consolidation (Agency Level) -- Constitution of the United States -- Constitutional Framework -- Constitutional Law -- Constitutional Reform -- Constitutionalism -- Constructivism -- Consultants -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) -- Contingency Planning -- Contract Administration -- Contract Failure -- Contractarianism -- Contracting Out -- Contractorization -- Control (Internal Controls) -- Coombs Commission -- Co-Optation -- Coproduction -- Corporate Foundations -- Corporate Funders -- Corporate Management -- Corporate Planning -- Corporatization -- Corrections Administration -- Corruption -- Cost Accounting. The gathering and processing of cost information for external reporting and internal decisionmaking -- Cost Overruns -- Cost Effectiveness -- Cost of Living Adjustments (COLAs) -- Costing-Out -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) -- Council of Europe -- Council on Foundations -- County -- County Supremacy Movement -- Court of Justice of the European Communities -- Court Order -- Covenant or Restrictive Covenant -- Credit Ratings -- Credit Reform -- Credit Reform Implementation -- Crime Control Policy -- Crisis Intervention -- Criteria/Alternatives Matrix -- Critical Theory (of Public Organizations) -- Crosswalk -- Crowd-Out -- Crowding Out -- Cultural Bias -- Cultural Imperialism -- Cutback Management