Description
Comparative Public Administration (2nd Ed.)
Coordinator: Chandler J.A.
Language: English
Subject for Comparative Public Administration:
Keywords
reform; indian; civil; service; administrative; court; law; french; commission; unfunded; Public Administration; Tamil Nadu; Pay For Performance; Central Government; Primary Health Care Doctors; Internal Revenue Service; Trentino Alto Adige; Federal Bureau Of Investigation; Unified Italian State; CCP; Public Private Partnerships; FOI Request; IMF Agreement; EU Competition Policy; Public Infrastructure; Grand Catalan Company; Uncertainty Avoidance; Chinese Government; Respective Administrative Areas; ND; China’s Civil Service; Napoleon Iii; Comparative Public Administration; Pre-1789 Ancien; Gdp Real Growth Rate
Publication date: 05-2014
288 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 07-2014
288 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Description
/li>Contents
/li>Readership
/li>Biography
/li>
This accessible introduction to the system of public administration uses a clear, country by country analysis to the contemporary system of public administration and management in a number of significant countries. This text examines the extent to which new public management, politicians and public opinion can influence bureaucracies in various countries; in addition, it explores the role of public administration systems within the wider political systems and democratic frameworks of their states.
The new edition revises and updates several of the original country studies including: the United States, France, the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Italy, and adds three more chapters on Greece, Russia, India and China. Each chapter is written to a common framework which makes comparison easier and covers the following issues:
Political culture
The Constitutional framework
The civil service
Public sector agencies
Federal and local government
Financing the system
Co-ordination of the system
Managing the system
Accountability, secrecy and openness
Democracy
Further developments and the financial crash
This student-friendly volume is a highly valuable resource for students of Politics and Administration.
This textbook is essential reading for students of comparative public administration.
1. Intoduction, J. A. Chandler 2. United Kingdom, John Kingdom 3. Ireland, Neil Collins, Aodh Quinlivan and Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan 4. France, J. A. Chandler 5. Greece, Howard Elcock 6. Italy, R. E. Spence 7. The United States, Howard Elcock 8. Russia, M. Nistotskaya 9. China, Thomas Johnson and Guohui Wang 10. India, David Pell 11. Conclusion, J. A. Chandler
J. A. Chandler is an emeritus professor of Local Governance at Sheffield Hallam University and author of several books on local government, including Explaining Local Government (Manchester University Press, 2009). He has also edited Local Government in Liberal Democracies (Routledge, 1993) and The Citizen’s Charter (Dartmouth, 1996). He is completing Explaining Public Policy to be published by Routledge in 2014/15.
