Tradition and Public Administration

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Analysis of Administrative Traditions....Pages 3-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids....Pages 19-30
Checks and Balance in China’s Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment....Pages 31-43
Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges....Pages 44-56
Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh....Pages 57-68
Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa....Pages 69-83
Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan....Pages 84-98
Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion?....Pages 99-113
Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?....Pages 114-128
The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era....Pages 129-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure....Pages 145-157
Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: The Weight of Legacy Explanations....Pages 158-173
The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain....Pages 174-190
Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?....Pages 191-202
In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe....Pages 203-216
The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories....Pages 217-233
Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative Change....Pages 234-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-274