Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration

Ali Farazmand

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040222218
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Public Administration and Public Policy
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• 1 Problem of Development Administration
• 2 Comparative and Development
• 3 Organizational Perspective in Comparative and Development Administration
• 4 Learning From Ancient Persia
• 5 Administrative Legacies of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
• 6 Indian Legacy of Administration
• 7 Development Administration in the Early Americas
• 8 Roots to Branches
• 9 Comparing the Public and Private Sectors in the United States
• 10 Alternative to Privatization
• 11 Implementing the Denationalization Option
• 12 A Shifting Center
• 13 The Duality of Swedish Central Administration*
• 14 Changing Values and Notions of Pay Equity in the Swedish Civil Service
• 15 Public Administration in Germany
• 16 Institutionalizing Democracy
• 17 Regionalization
• 18 A Framework for the Analysis of Changes in Australian Executive Branches
• 19 Public Administration in Japan
• 20 Public Administration of Occupational Safety and Health
• 21 Regionalization in Russia
• 22 Devolution or Dissolution
• 23 Process of Democratization and Local Governance in Poland
• 24 Building Community Organizations and Local Governments in Former Soviet Republics
• 25 Prospects for Modernization of Public Administration in Postdictatorial Greece
• 26 The Public Administration of the Republic of China on Taiwan
• 27 Public Administration as a Discipline in the People's Republic of China
• 28 Politics of Governance Reform in Thailand
• 29 Innovations for Administrative Reforms in Korea
• 30 Public Enterprise Reforms and Privatization in India
• 31 A Decade of Public Administration and Political Flux in India: 1987-1998
• 32 Capacity Building for Municipal Governance in Kenya
• 33 Decentralization and Development Administration in Nigeria
• 34 Conduct of Managerialism and Its Performance in Southern African Countries
• 35 State Tradition and Public Administration in Iran: Ancient  and Contemporary Perspectives
• 36 Reform Managers in Iran
• 37 Bureaucrats as Agents of Development in the Middle East
• 38 The Regionalization Experience in Latin America
• 39 Merit Reform in Latin America
• 40 Local Government in Authoritarian Chile
• 41 State Administration in Socialist Cuba
• 42 Internationalization or Indigenization
• 43 Understanding Small-State Governance
• 44 Administrative Reform
• 45 Government Reform and Reorganization in an Era of Retrenchment and Conviction Politics
• 46 Is Democracy a Substitute for Ethics?
• 47 Environmental Policy in the Balkans
• 48 Problems of Public Policy Implementation in Developing Countries
• 49 Policy Choices
• 50 The Need for a Concept in Executive Personnel Systems and Development
• 51 The State, Government Bureaucracies, and Their Alternatives
• 52 Administrative Corruption
• 53 Public Service Ethics and Professionalism
• 54 Improving Ethical Behavior in Public Organizations
• 55 Ethical Issues in the Use of the Internet
• 56 Emerging Challenges in Healthcare Administrative Ethics
• 57 Bureaucratic Links Between Administration and Politics
• 58 The Strategic Environment of Public Managers in Developing Countries
• 59 The Achievement Crisis
• 60 The Politics of Administrative Reform
• 61 Media and the Bureaucracy in the United States
• 62 Bureaucracy, Agrarian Reforms, and Regime Enhancement
• 63 Bureaucracy and Debureaucratization
• 64 Women in Bureaucracies
• 65 Deviant Bureaucracies
• 66 Greek Bureaucracy and Public Administration
• 67 Running the Bureaucratic State
• 68 Challenges to Privatization in Developing Countries
• 69 Bureaucracy in Bangladesh
• 70 Bureaucratization of the Arab World
• 71 The State and Bureaucracy
• 72 Bureaucratic Politics and Political Regimes
• 73. Evolution and Revolution
• 74 Regime Changes, the Bureaucracy, and Political Development
• 75 Revolution and Public Service in the Third World
• 76 Bureaucracy and Revolution
• Index