Cover; Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings; Contents; Permissions and Acknowledgements; Personal Acknowledgements; Introduction: Essential Readings in Comparative Administration; Preface; Foreword; Part I: Comparative Public Administration: Growth, Method, and Ecology; In Search of Comparative Administration; The Prismatic Model: Conceptualizing Transitional Societies; Comparison in the Study of Public Administration; Comparative Public Administration: Prologue, Performance, Problems, and Promise; Comparative Public Administration: The Search for Theories An Overview of Bureaucracy and Political DevelopmentPart II: Administrative Development and Development Administration; Western Conceptualization of Administrative Development: A Critique and an Alternative; Administrative Objectives for Development Administration; The Concept of Development Administration; The Comparative Administration Group, Development Administration, and Antidevelopment; Neoteric Theories for Development Administration in the New World Order; The Failure of U.S. Technical Assistance in Public Administration: The Iranian Case Administering to the Poor (or, if We Can't Help Rich Dictators, What Can We do for the Poor?)Development Assistance in Public Administration: Requiem or Renewal; Part III: Managing Institutions through Planning and Decentralization; Analysing Institutional Change and Administrative Transformation: A Comparative View; Analyzing the Organizational Requirements for Serving the Rural Poor; Development Planning: Lessons of Experience; Government Decentralization and Economic Development: The Evolution of Concepts and Practices; Decentralization: The Latest Fashion in Development Administration? Exploring the Implications of Privatization and DeregulationApproaches to Privatization: Established Models and a U.S. Innovation; Part IV: New Public Management and Reforms; The Administrative State in a Globalizing World: Some Trends and Challenges; From Public Administration to Public Management: Reassessing a Revolution?; The New Public Management as an International Phenomenon: A Skeptical View; What is Wrong with the New Public Management?; Introduction: Exploiting IT in Public Administration: Towards the Information Polity? Reengineering Public Sector Organisations using Information TechnologyInformatization and Democracy: Orwell or Athens? A Review of the Literature; Transforming Bureaucracies for the 21st Century: The New Democratic Governance Paradigm; An Exploration into the Familiar and the New: Public Budgeting in Developing Countries; The New World Order and Global Public Administration: A Critical Essay; Global Perspective on Comparative and International Administration; Changing European States, Changing Public Administration: Introduction; Public Administration in Statist France Administrative Science as Reform: German Public Administration | 
