Research Catalog

Title

Comparative public administration : the essential readings / edited by Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Otenyo, Eric Edwin.
• Lind, Nancy S., 1958-

Description

xxxvi, 980 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 15

Uniform Title

Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 15.

Subject

• Public administration

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• In search of comparative administration / Lee Sigelman -- The Prismatic model: conceptualizing transitional societies / Fred W. Riggs -- Comparison in the study of public adminstration / Ferrel Heady -- Comparative public administration: prologue, performace, problems and promise / Dwight Waldo -- Comparative public administration: the search for theories / Monty van Wart and Joseph N. Cayer -- An overview of bureaucracy and poitical development / Joseph La Palombara -- Western conceptualization of administrative development: a critique and an alternative / Satya Deva Administrative objectives for development administration / George F. Gant -- The Comparative administration group, development administration, and antidevelopment -- 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 the rich dictators, what can we do for the poor?) / John D. Montgomery -- Developmental assistance in public administration: requim 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 -- Governmental decentraliation 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 -- Instroduction: exploiting it in public administration: towards the information polity? / Christine Bellamy and John Taylor -- Reengineering public secor 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.

OCLC

• ocm77539381
• 77539381
• SCSB-5313616

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Columbia University Libraries