Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 274 pages)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1282911708
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0230575668
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9781282911703
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9780230289635
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9780230575660
Content:
Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1 The Analysis of Administrative Traditions; Part II: Empirical Analysis of Administrative Traditions; 2 Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids; 3 Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment; 4 Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges; 5 Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh; 6 Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa
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7 Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan8 Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion?; 9 Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?; 10 The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era; Part III: Legacy Effects: Administrative Reform and Administrative Tradition; 11 The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure
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12 Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: The Weight of Legacy Explanations13 The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain; 14 Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?; 15 In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe; 16 The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories
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17 Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative ChangeReferences; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1282918958
Additional Edition:
Print version Tradition and Public Administration
Language:
English
Author information:
Peters, B. Guy 1944-
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