2nd Edition

Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration

Edited By Ali Farazmand Copyright 2001
    1156 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Foreword
    Ferrel Heady xii

    Prologue
    Fred W.Riggs xiv
     Preface xvi
    Contributors

    UNIT ONE COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

    Part I Comparative and Development Administration as Fields of Study:
    History, Methods, Concepts, Problems, and Issues

    Part II Historical Bases of Public Administration and Bureaucracy

    Part III Public Administration in Developed Nations: The United States,
    Western Europe, Australia, and Japan

    Part IV Public Administration in Developed Nations: Russia and Eastern and
    Southern Europe

    Part V Public Administration in Developing Nations: Asia and Africa

    Part VI Public Administration in Developing Nations: The Near and Middle
    East, Latin America, and the Caribbean

    Part VII Public Administration and Development, Dependency, and
    Independence: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects

    Part VIII Comparative Public Administration and Public Policy:
    Administrative Reform, Change, and Development

    Part IX Some Central Issues/Problems in Comparative and Development
    Administration

    Part X Ethics and Accountability in Public Administration

    UNIT TWO COMPARATIVE PUBLIC BUREAUCRACIES:
    ADMINISTRATIVE PERFORMANCE AND POLITICAL
    RESPONSIBILITY

    Part I Contemporary Bureaucratic Politics and Administrative Theory

    Part II Bureaucratic Power: Administrative Performance and Regime
    Maintenance

    Part III Bureaucratic Power: Administrative Performance and Political
    Responsibility in Europe

    Part IV Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration in Developing
    Nations: Asia and Africa

    Part V Bureaucratic Politics and Public Administration in Developing
    Nations: The Near and Middle East and Central and Latin America

    Part VI Bureaucracy, Change, and Revolution

    Biography

    Ali Farazmand