Tradition and Public Administration [Hardcover]

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.PART I INTRODUCTION The Analysis of Administrative Traditions; M.Painter ?& B.G.Peters PART II EMPRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITIONS Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids; M.Painter? & B.G.Peters Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: 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.Hyden Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan; M.Painter Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and 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.Yesilkagit Path-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 and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe; J-H. Meyer-Sahling The New MemberlÃØ