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. INDICE: PART I INTRODUCTION The Analysis of Administrative Traditions; M.Painter & B.G.Peters PART II EMPRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITIONSAdministrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids; M.Painter & B.G.Peters Checks and Balance in China's AdministrativeTraditions: a Preliminary Assessment; A.B.L.Cheung Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges; O.P.Dwivedi & D.S.Mishra Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh; A.S.Huque Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa; G.HydenLegacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan; M.Painter Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversificationand Reassertion?; M.Lodge Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?; B.G.Peters The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era; J.Halligan PART III LEGACY EFFECTS: ADMINISTRATIVE REFROM AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITION The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure; K.YesilkagitPath-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System:the Weight of Legacy Explanations; P.Bezes The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain; E.Ongaro Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?; J.Pierre In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations andAdministrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe; J-H. Meyer-Sahling The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories; T.Verheijen Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative Change; M.Painter & B.G.Peters
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57566-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 21/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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