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Part 1 Factors affecting the context of state government administration:introduction and overview of state government administration; managementconsequences of the 1960-1990 modernization of state government; stateadministration andintergovernmental interdependency - coping with turbulentenvironments; the impact of political cultures on state governmentadministration. Part 2 Basic state government management practices: governorsas chief administrators and managers; theindependent political executive instate governance; budgeting in state government - control and management;developments in state government human resources administration; strategicplanning in state government - a key to strategic management;theadministration of innovations in state government;administrative/management productivity in state government; policy researchin state government; measuring results in state government. Part 3Administration policies of state government: theadministration of stateeconomic development policy; administration of state government ruraldevelopment policy; the administration of state economic development -decision making amid uncertainty; the administration of developmentaldisabilities instate government; administrative and management issues instate human service programmes; state administration of welfare policies;administering rapid growth entitlements - the case of Medicaid; themanagement of state corrections policy -consequences ofgetting tough oncrime; administration of state environmental policies; administration andmanagement of public works in state government. Part 4 Concluding assessment:state government capacity challenges for the new century.