Public administration : a comparative perspective

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Public administration : a comparative perspective

Ferrel Heady

(Public administration and public policy, 59)

Marcel Dekker, c1996

5th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

This is an analysis of governments's development in various countries and of the relationships found between the development of government and technology, culture, economic systems and social order. This edition explains recent comparative research on civil service systems; discusses the implications of political changes in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; offers a four-tier system to classify countries' level of development; introduces several new case examples; and more.

Table of Contents

  • Comparison in the study of public administration
  • a focus for comparison
  • concepts of system transformation
  • historical antecedents of national administrative systems
  • administration in more recent developed nations - general characteristics and "classic" adminstrative systems
  • administration in more developed nations - some variations in administrative systems
  • administration in less developed nations
  • bureaucratic-prominent political regimes
  • party-prominent political regimes
  • party-prominent political regimes
  • an overview of bureacracies and political systems.

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  • NCID
    BA2604324X
  • ISBN
    • 0824796578
  • LCCN
    95021421
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 497 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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