Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration

by Ali Farazmand (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780203904756
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/29/2001
Series:	Public Administration and Public Policy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1130
File size:	5 MB

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

Editorial Reviews

Seventy-six essays cover various issues related to the study of comparative and development administration, and more specifically, administrative performance and political responsibility. They discuss the administrative processes related to economic development, with an emphasis in the role of bureaucracies. The volume focuses on contemporary conditions in developing countries; however, historical perspectives, and analyses of the conditions of industrialized countries are also included. Chapters discussing public administration in various countries are grouped geographically. Other chapters discuss the historical bases of public administration and bureaucracy, problems in comparative and development administration, ethics and accountability, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, bureaucratic power, and change, and revolution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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