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Title Comparative public administration : the essential readings / edited by Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind
Published Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier JAI, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (980 pages)
Series Research in public policy analysis and management, 0732-1317 ; v. 15
Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 15.
Contents In search of comparative administration / Lee Sigelman -- The prismatic model: Conceptualizing transitional societies / Fred W. Riggs -- Comparison in the study of public administration / Ferrel Heady -- Comparative public administration: Prologue, performance, problems, and promise / Dwight Waldo -- Comparative public administration: The search for theories / Monty van Wart and Joseph N. Cayer -- An overview of bureaucracy and political development / Joseph La Palombara -- Western conceptualization of administrative development: A critique and an alternative / Satya Deva -- Administrative objectives for development administration / Victor A. Thompson -- The concept of development administration / George F. Gant -- The comparative administration group, development administration, and antidevelopment / Brian Loveman -- Neoteric theories for development administration in the new world order / Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor -- The failure of U.S. technical assistance in public administration: The Iranian case / John L. Seitz -- Administering to the poor (or, if we can't help rich dictators, what can we do for the poor?) / John D. Montgomery -- Development assistance in public administration: Requiem or renewal / Milton J. Esman
Analysing institutional change and administrative transformation: a comparative view / Theo A.J. Toonen -- Analyzing the organizational requirements for serving the rural poor / David K. Leonard -- Development planning: lessons of experience / Albert Waterston -- Government decentralization and economic development: the evolution of concepts and practices / Dennis A. Rondinelli -- Decentralization: the latest fashion in development administration? / Diana Conyers -- Exploring the implications of privatization and deregulation / Dennis J. Gayle and Jonathan N. Goodrich -- Approaches to privatization: established models and a U.S. innovation / Stanley Y. Chang and Roberta Ann Jones -- The Administrative state in a globalizing world: some trends and challenges / Gerald Caiden -- From public administration to public management: reassessing a revolution? / Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins -- The New public management as an international phenomennon: a skeptical view / Laurence E. Lynn Jr
What is wrong with the new public management? / Donald J. Savoie -- Introduction: exploiting it in public administration: towards the information polity? / Christine Bellamy and John Taylor -- Reengineering public sector organisations using information technology / Kim Viborg Andersen -- Informatization and democracy: Orwell or Athens? A review of the literature / W.B.H.J. van de Donk and Pieter W. Tops -- Transforming bureaucracies for the 21st century: the new democratic governance paradigm / Bidhya Bowornwathana -- An exploration into the familiar and the new: public budgeting in developing countries / Naomi Caiden -- The new world order and global public administration: a critical essay / Ali Farazmand -- Global perspective on comparative and international administration / Fred W. Riggs -- Changing European states, changing public administration: Introduction / Walter Kickert and Richard Stillman -- Public administration in statist France / Jacques Chevalier
Administrative science as reform: German public administration / Wolfgang Seibel -- Antistatist reforms and new administrative directions: public administration in the United Kingdom / Christopher Pollit -- Expansion and diversification of public administration in the postwar welfare state: the case of the Netherlands / Walter J.M. Kickert -- From continental law to Anglo-Saxon behaviorism: Scandanavian public administration / Torben Beck Jorgensen -- International development management in a globalized world / Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Jennifer Brinkerhoff -- Public administration in post-socialist Eastern Europe / Eric M. Rice -- Assessing public management reform strategy in an international context / L.R. Jones and Donald F. Kettl -- Good government: an unstylish idea that warrants a worldwide welcome / Nicholas Henry -- Conclusion: impact of globalization on the study and practice of public administration / Fred W. Riggs
Summary Volume 15 of Comparative Public Administration, titled Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, offers a four-part approach that includes comparative public administration, administrative development and development administration, institutional management, and new public management and reforms. These elements discuss the fundamentals of public administration in detail while also investigating the changes that occur in administrative institutions. Special attention is given to international organizations. This book is well suited for practitioners and academic researchers that deal w
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Subject Public administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
Public administration
Vergelijkende bestuurskunde.
Form Electronic book
Author Otenyo, Eric Edwin.
Lind, Nancy S., 1958-
ISBN 9780080480640
0080480640
9781849504539
1849504539