Governing the Contemporary Administrative State

lt;b>Jarle Trondal is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Norway; Professor at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; and Senior Fellow at The Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, US. His research interests include European public administration, administrative behavior and reform, global governance, and organizational studies.

Part I. Introducing and Theorizing the Administrative State.- 1. An Introduction to the Administrative State.- 2. Theorizing the Administrative State.- Part II. Outlooks on the Domestic Administrative State.- 3. Evolving Tensions in Public Governance.- 4. Public Administration Sustainability and Its Organizational Basis.- 5. Agency Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems.- 6. Restructuring Public Governance in Integrated Administrative Systems.- 7. Designing the Administrative State.- Part III. Outlooks on the Multilevel and International Administrative State.- 8. Administrative Sciences and the Multilevel Administrative State.- 9. European Integration and the Administrative State .- 10. Incomplete Contracting and Policy Influence.- 11. The Autonomy of International Public Administration.- 12. The Organizational Dimension of Global Governance. 13. Conclusion.