Public Administration
A Comparative Perspective
5th Edition
Published on 22. February 2001
Book
Hardback
520 pages
978-0-8247-9657-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is an analysis of governments's development in various countries and of the relationships found between the development of government and technology, culture, economic systems and social order. This edition explains recent comparative research on civil service systems; discusses the implications of political changes in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; offers a four-tier system to classify countries' level of development; introduces several new case examples; and more.
More details
Series
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
862 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8247-9657-0 (9780824796570)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Comparison in the study of public administration; a focus for comparison; concepts of system transformation; historical antecedents of national administrative systems; administration in more recent developed nations - general characteristics and "classic" adminstrative systems; administration in more developed nations - some variations in administrative systems; administration in less developed nations; bureaucratic-prominent political regimes; party-prominent political regimes; party-prominent political regimes; an overview of bureacracies and political systems.