The Oxford Handbook of Public Management gives an assessment of the major trends in public management, embracing both their intended and unintended effects. The articles comment on the key current issues. The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many different countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management—some advocate the use of more managerial approaches, while others critique them. New functions have also arisen in the public sector, such as evaluation or management consulting, which require analysis. The individual articles include a mix of broad overviews, in-depth exploration of particular thematic areas and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics

《牛津公共管理手册》对公共管理的主要趋势进行了评估，包括其预期和非预期的影响。这些文章评论了当前的关键问题。公共部门继续在全世界发挥战略作用。在过去三十年中，许多不同国家的公共部门管理方法发生了重大变化。关于当代公共行政/管理，学术界也存在着激烈的争论，一些人主张使用更多的管理方法，而另一些人则批评这些方法。公共部门也出现了新的职能，例如需要分析的评价或管理咨询。个别文章包括广泛的概述，对特定主题领域的深入探索和不同理论视角的分析，如政治学、管理学、社会学和经济学