Handbook of comparative and development public administration
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Handbook of comparative and development public administration
(Public administration and public policy, 94)
M. Dekker, c2001
2nd ed., rev. and expanded
Available at 31 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With contributions from nearly 80 international experts, this comprehensive resource covers diverse issues, aspects, and features of public administration and policy around the world. It focuses on bureaucracy and bureaucratic politics in developing and industrialized countries and emphasizing administrative performance and policy implementation, as well as political system maintenance and regime enhancement. The book covers the history of public administration and bureaucracy in Persia, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium and among the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas, public administration in small island states, Eastern Europe, and ethics and other contemporary issues in public administration.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Ferrel Heady xii
Prologue
Fred W.Riggs xiv
Preface xvi
Contributors
UNIT ONE COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Part I Comparative and Development Administration as Fields of Study:
History, Methods, Concepts, Problems, and Issues
Part II Historical Bases of Public Administration and Bureaucracy
Part III Public Administration in Developed Nations: The United States,
Western Europe, Australia, and Japan
Part IV Public Administration in Developed Nations: Russia and Eastern and
Southern Europe
Part V Public Administration in Developing Nations: Asia and Africa
Part VI Public Administration in Developing Nations: The Near and Middle
East, Latin America, and the Caribbean
Part VII Public Administration and Development, Dependency, and
Independence: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects
Part VIII Comparative Public Administration and Public Policy:
Administrative Reform, Change, and Development
Part IX Some Central Issues/Problems in Comparative and Development
Administration
Part X Ethics and Accountability in Public Administration
UNIT TWO COMPARATIVE PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES:
ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL
RESPONSIBILITY
Part I Contemporary Bureaucratic Politics and Administrative Theory
Part II Bureaucratic Power: Administrative Performance and Regime
Maintenance
Part III Bureaucratic Power: Administrative Performance and Political
Responsibility in Europe
Part IV Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration in Developing
Nations: Asia and Africa
Part V Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration in Developing
Nations: The Near and Middle East and Central and Latin America
Part VI Bureaucracy, Change, and Revolution
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