Comparative Public Management
Putting U.S. Public Policy and Implementation in Context
Published on 9. May 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-275-94348-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution. The book is designed to isolate and demonstrate the essential American-ness of the United States' public service by holding it up to the mirror of other developed democracies. While there are lessons to be learned from other countries, Baker and his expert contributors examine the complexities of making comparisons across cultures, even within broadly similar democratic systems, and urban-industrial economies.
The volume concludes with a list of sectoral cases. These comprise most of the main dimensions of public-sector activity around the world. They are the main elements of many graduate professional degrees in public affairs, and the material has been written with the needs of both practitioners and teachers in mind. This is essential reading for all concerned with public management and administration as well as comparative government.
The volume concludes with a list of sectoral cases. These comprise most of the main dimensions of public-sector activity around the world. They are the main elements of many graduate professional degrees in public affairs, and the material has been written with the needs of both practitioners and teachers in mind. This is essential reading for all concerned with public management and administration as well as comparative government.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-275-94348-6 (9780275943486)
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Person
RANDALL BAKER is Professor and Director of International Programs, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. He is the author of numerous books and articles in comparative public management and environmental policy analysis.
Content
Foreword by Alfred M. Zuck Prologue Comparative Public Management: Coming In from the Cold by Randall Baker The Impact of International Trade and Direct Foreign Investment on the National and Subnational Levels: An Overview by Curtis Ventriss The Importance of Comparative Study in Educating the U.S. Public Service by Richard W. Ryan Why Has Bureaucracy Not Smothered Democracy in the United States? by Fred W. Riggs Democracy versus Bureaucracy: Transforming the Nature of the Civil Service in Bulgaria by Randall Baker Theory and Methodology in the Study of Comparative Public Administration by B. Guy Peters Comparative Civil Service Research: The Strategic Agenda by Eugene B. McGregor and Paul Solano Administrative Reform by Gerald Caiden Comparative Perspectives on Public Finance by Larry Schroeder The Management of Public Budgeting by Naomi Caiden Projects, Plans, and Programs by Steven H. Arnold and E. Philip Morgan Comparative Intergovernmental Relations by Robert Agranoff Central Issues in Comparative Analysis of Criminal Justice Systems and Criminal Policy: The Need for a Comparative Approach by Wolfgang Dechsel Human Resources Management by Lois R. Wise Environmental Policy and Management in the European Community and the United States, A Comparison by Mariette C. S. Glim Information Resource Management: A Framework for Comparison by Rolland Hurtubise Comparative Industrial Policy by Roy W. Shin Privatization: A Comparative Focus by Donald E. Fuller Index