Comparative public administration the essential readings /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Otenyo, Eric Edwin, Lind, Nancy S., 1958-, Jones, Lawrence
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2006.
• Σειρά: Research in public policy analysis and management ; v. 15.
• Θέματα: Business & Economics > Management.; Management & management techniques.; Public administration.

 Public administration scholars and practitioners are increasingly concerned with the need to broaden the field's scope beyond particularistic accounts of administration in given countries. The field of Comparative administration is, therefore, once again thriving. Comparative Administration: The Essential Readings is the first major collection of contributions of major field leaders in this millennium. In this comprehensive and engaging volume, Otenyo and Lind bring together seminal readings in comparative, development public administration and contemporary new public management scholarship. This authoritative and well balanced volume provides readers at all levels with a rare opportunity to contextualize the field's growth and evolution. In what is truly a remarkable collection of the field's best minds, the book is a rare combination of conceptual and truly comparative empirical works.Without endorsing specific methodologies, the volume is an exciting and succinct overview the field's past and current concerns and interests. An outstanding feature of this book is that it carefully combines both previously published and fresh works considered 'essential' because of their potential impact on the field's development. The reader will notice that while most of the chapters are broad-brush studies, the selected case-specific chapters are added to illuminate conceptual and theoretical insights.Organized around broad array of topics and themes that include; Methods and Growth of Comparative Public Administration, the Ecology of Administration, Administrative Development, and Development Administration, Planning, Decentralization and Rural Administration, New Public Management, Informatization in administrative settings, and International Administration, the editors seek to provide readers a broader context in which to comprehend public administration in a globalizing world. Hopefully, this timely volume is a valuable resource for a variety of audiences involved in public administration including students and practitioners all over the world. 

 Comparative public administration : growth, method, and ecology / Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind -- Comparative public administration : prologue, performance, problems, and promise / Dwight Waldo -- The prismatic model : conceptualizing transitional societies / Fred W. Riggs -- Comparative public administration : the search for theories / Monty van Wart, Joseph N. Cayer -- An overview of bureaucracy and political development / Joseph La Palombara -- Administrative development and development administration / Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind -- Western conceptualization of administrative development : a critique and an alternative / Satya Deva -- Administrative objectives for development administration / Victor A. Thompson -- The concept of development administration / George F. Gant -- The comparative administration group, development administration, and antidevelopment / Brian Loveman -- 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 Cant Help Rich Dictators, What Can We do for the Poor?) / John D. Montgomery -- Development assistance in public administration : requiem or renewal / Milton J. Esman -- Managing institutions through planning and decentralization / Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind -- 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 -- Government decentralization 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, Jonathan N. Goodrich -- Approaches to privatization : established models and a U.S. innovation / Stanley Y. Chang, Roberta Ann Jones -- New public management and reforms / Eric E. Otenyo, Nancy S. Lind -- The administrative state in a globalizing world : some trends and challenges / Gerald Caiden -- From public administration to public management : reassessing a revolution? / Andrew Gray, Bill Jenkins -- The new public management as an international phenomenon : a skeptical view / Laurence E. Lynn -- What is wrong with the new public management? / Donald J. Savoie -- Introduction : exploiting IT in public administration : towards the information polity? / Christine Bellamy, John Taylor -- Comparison in the study of public administration / Ferrel Heady -- Reengineering public sector 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, 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, Richard Stillman -- Changing European states, changing public administration : public administration in statist france / Jacques Chevalier -- Changing European states, changing public administration : administrative science as reform : German public administration / Wolfgang Seibel -- Changing European states, changing public administration : antistatist reforms and new administrative directions : public administration in the United Kingdom / Christopher Pollit -- Changing European states, changing public administration : expansion and diversification of public administration in the postwar welfare state : the case of the Netherlands / Walter J.M. Kickert -- Changing European states, changing public administration : from continental law to anglo-saxon behaviorism : scandanavian public administration / Torben Beck Jorgensen -- International development management in a globalized world / Derick W. Brinkerhoff, Jennifer Brinkerhoff -- Public administration in post-socialist eastern Europe / Eric M. Rice -- Assessing public management reform strategy in an international context / L.R. Jones, Donald F. Kettl -- In search of comparative administration / Lee Sigelman -- 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 -- Preface : the field of comparative administration through the years / Jamil E. Jreisat.