This title presents a comprehensive overview of the issues in modern bureacracies, combined with a comparative analysis of the civil service systems and administrative traditions of five Anglo-American nations: Australia, Canada, great Britain, New Zealand and the United States. In each chapter, expert contributors undertake a systematic analysis of each country's civil service from three broad perspectives: external relations, internal constituent features and patterns of change. By employing a comparative framework in conjunction with empirical research, they are able to emphasise the specific nature, characteristics and development of each service system. They also highlight the historical developments and reforms associated with the Anglo-American model, which are often highly distinctive compared with the other OECD nations. The concludes with a systematic comparison of each civil service system, attempting to find parallels and variations between them.
Author(s): John Halligan
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 240
Preliminaries......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 7
List of tables......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Anglo-American civil service systems......Page 12
2 Administrative traditions and the Anglo-American democracies......Page 21
3 The civil service in Britain: a case study in path dependency......Page 38
4 The Australian public service: redefining boundaries......Page 81
5 The New Zealand public service......Page 124
6 The Canadian public service......Page 159
7 Civil service and administrative reform in the United States......Page 185
8. Anglo-American civil service systems......Page 206
Index......Page 228
