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.
Author(s): Ali Farazmand (Editor)
Series: Public Administration and Public Policy Series
Edition: 2
Publisher: Marcel Dekker (CRC Press)
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 1155
Foreword......Page 10
Prologue......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Contents......Page 18
Contributors......Page 26
Problem of Development Administration......Page 32
Comparative and Development Public Administration......Page 40
Organizational Perspective in Comparative and Development Administration......Page 54
Learning From Ancient Persia......Page 64
Administrative Legacies of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium......Page 92
Indian Legacy of Administration......Page 108
Development Administration in the Early Americas......Page 120
Roots to Branches......Page 134
Comparing the Public and Private Sectors in the United States......Page 150
Alternative to Privatization......Page 162
Implementing the Denationalization Option......Page 176
A Shifting Center......Page 188
The Duality of Swedish Central Administration*......Page 206
Changing Values and Notions of Pay Equity in the Swedish Civil Service......Page 218
Public Administration in Germany......Page 230
Institutionalizing Democracy......Page 244
Regionalization......Page 254
A Framework for the Analysis of Changes in Australian Executive Branches......Page 270
Public Administration in Japan......Page 280
Public Administration of Occupational Safety and Health......Page 334
Regionalization in Russia......Page 344
Devolution or Dissolution......Page 362
Process of Democratization and Local Governance in Poland......Page 376
Building Community Organizations and Local Governments in Former Soviet Republics......Page 394
Prospects for Modernization of Public Administration in Postdictatorial Greece......Page 410
The Public Administration of the Republic of China on Taiwan......Page 428
Public Administration as a Discipline in the People’s Republic of China......Page 440
Politics of Governance Reform in Thailand......Page 452
Innovations for Administrative Reforms in Korea......Page 476
Public Enterprise Reforms and Privatization in India......Page 490
A Decade of Public Administration and Political Flux in India: 1987–1998......Page 504
Capacity Building for Municipal Governance in Kenya......Page 518
Decentralization and Development Administration in Nigeria......Page 532
Conduct of Managerialism and Its Performance in Southern African Countries......Page 552
State Tradition and Public Administration in Iran: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives......Page 566
Reform Managers in Iran......Page 582
Bureaucrats as Agents of Development in the Middle East......Page 596
The Regionalization Experience in Latin America......Page 612
Merit Reform in Latin America......Page 624
Local Government in Authoritarian Chile*......Page 636
State Administration in Socialist Cuba......Page 648
Internationalization or Indigenization......Page 662
Understanding Small-State Governance......Page 674
Administrative Reform......Page 686
Government Reform and Reorganization in an Era of Retrenchment and Conviction Politics......Page 700
Is Democracy a Substitute for Ethics?......Page 722
Environmental Policy in the Balkans......Page 732
Problems of Public Policy Implementation in Developing Countries*......Page 742
Policy Choices......Page 752
The Need for a Concept in Executive Personnel Systems and Development......Page 770
The State, Government Bureaucracies, and Their Alternatives......Page 782
Administrative Corruption......Page 792
Public Service Ethics and Professionalism......Page 806
Improving Ethical Behavior in Public Organizations......Page 818
Ethical Issues in the Use of the Internet......Page 826
Emerging Challenges in Healthcare Administrative Ethics......Page 836
Bureaucratic Links Between Administration and Politics......Page 846
The Strategic Environment of Public Managers in Developing Countries......Page 870
The Achievement Crisis......Page 886
The Politics of Administrative Reform......Page 898
Media and the Bureaucracy in the United States......Page 908
Bureaucracy, Agrarian Reforms, and Regime Enhancement......Page 916
Bureaucracy and Debureaucratization......Page 932
Women in Bureaucracies......Page 950
Deviant Bureaucracies......Page 972
Greek Bureaucracy and Public Administration......Page 984
Running the Bureaucratic State......Page 994
Challenges to Privatization in Developing Countries......Page 1008
Bureaucracy in Bangladesh......Page 1020
Bureaucratization of the Arab World......Page 1038
The State and Bureaucracy......Page 1050
Bureaucratic Politics and Political Regimes......Page 1060
Evolution and Revolution......Page 1070
Regime Changes, the Bureaucracy, and Political Development......Page 1084
Revolution and Public Service in the Third World......Page 1096
Bureaucracy and Revolution......Page 1108
Index......Page 1124
