Global dimensions of public administration and governance: a comparative voyage /
Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Eran Vigoda-Gadot ; with Mirit Kisner.
- Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2015.
- xxiv, 552 pages; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalization and government: combining global and comparative perspectives upon the state of modern government -- Levels of analysis and understanding -- Globalization -- Combining a global and comparative perspective -- Combining the studies of administration and politics -- Audience for and structure of this book -- Concluding remarks: "Flying and comparing across the globe -- Part 1: The origin, development, and dissemination of government: structuring territory and organization -- The roots and development of governance, government, and public administration: the envelopment of local communities in upper-local polities over time -- Types of governing associations -- All government and governance started local -- The emergence of territorial state as upper-local polities -- A global model of government development -- The development of thinking about government: from political theory to thinking about administration -- Comparing government models: concluding remarks -- Structuring governance and government: the layered territorial and bureaucratic organization of the world -- Territoriality and property -- Territorialization of the world -- International boundaries -- Subnational jurisdictions: historical trends -- Subnational jurisdictions: the contemporary situation -- Bureaucracy as organizational structure: the bureaucratic of the world -- The influence of colonization -- Concluding remarks: boundaries creating polities -- State making, nation building, and citizenship -- Defining state and nation -- State making: models and explanations -- The separation of organized religion and the state: a recent phenomenon? -- Nation building: from subjects to citizens -- Citizenship as layered phenomenon -- A future for state, nation, and citizenship? -- Political-administrative systems and multilevel government -- Basic distinctions of political systems -- Party-political and bureaucratic-prominent systems -- The three branches of government and core features of democratic political systems -- The structure of government departments -- Multilevel and multiactor government and governance -- Concluding remarks -- Bureaucratic organization and culture -- Defining bureaucracy: the influence of Max Weber and his fears -- Bureaucracy in the evolution of human communities: the origin of the stereotype? -- Societal culture -- Organizational culture -- Perceptions of public individuals -- Sucking water from straws or opening the tap in the kitchen -- Organization, management, and policy: comparing the competencies of government and public administration -- The human side of public enterprise: management, organizations, and behavior in comparative public administration -- The public management revolution: comparative views -- Comparing the sectors -- The implementation of NPM in Western Democracies -- The implementation of NPM in other world regions -- The "Dinosaur Syndrome" and the comparative movement: a midrange comment -- The organization and management of global policy and public administration -- Summary -- Bureaucracy as personnel system and political-administrative relations -- The importance of the personnel function for responsive government -- Defining bureaucracy as personnel system: Max Weber's juridical perspective -- Categories of public servants in a sociological perspective -- Variation in the size of the civil service -- Political-administrative relations: intertwinement, politicization, and consultation -- Development of the personnel function in developed countries -- Concluding comments -- Part 2: Managing policies: continuity, change, and diversity -- Traditional government activities I: national defense, police law and order -- Atrocities of man and nature: national defense and emergency management -- Internal security: enforcing law and order -- The judiciary system: one state under the rule of law -- Comparing defense, police, and judiciary across nations -- Traditional government activities II: economy, finance, and taxation systems -- Economy and finance -- Tax reforms: taking for giving -- Comparing economy, finance, and taxation systems across nations -- Social-economic services: energy management, planning and zoning, industry and trade -- Energy management -- Planning and zoning -- Industry and trade -- Comparing energy management, planning and zoning, and industry and trade across nations -- Welfare services and policies: health care, education, and social services -- Health care -- Education -- Social security -- Comparing health care, education, and social services across nations -- A Vision for comparative theory and practice: horizons of the comparative voyage -- Comparison in motion: divergence and convergence across time and states -- The comparative approach in service of interconnectedness, emulation, and policy transfer -- Comparative public administration and governance: between transfer and diffusion -- Horizons for comparative public administration and governance -- Summary and final remarks
A comparative, interdisciplinary examination of the mechanisms behind public administration Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance is a comprehensive, comparative text on the structure and function of governments around the world. Written by two of the field's leading public administration scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective and a global, historical, and theoretical examination of the management and governance of the modern state. Readers learn how territory, bureaucracy, and political systems influence policy and reform in over thirty countries, and how these mechanisms affect the everyday lives of citizens. This comparative approach features rich examples of how policy is shaped by culture, and how modern policy principles are filtered to fit a country's needs and expectations. Chapters conclude with comparative analyses that help readers better-understand the role and position of government in the contemporary world, both in democratic societies and less-than-democratic environments. Governance doesn't happen in a vacuum. Those responsible for policy, regulation, and reform take cues from history, current events, and visions for the future to inform thinking on matters that can potentially affect a large number of everyday lives. This book illustrates the thought process, providing the necessary insight these important decisions require. * Understand the relationship between structure and function of government * Learn how policy is culture-dependent * Examine the political and societal contexts of reform * Discover the myriad forms of modern bureaucracy The various social sciences provide valuable information and perspectives for those involved in public administration. Those perspectives converge here to form a thorough, well-rounded, examination of the success and failure possible, and the mechanisms through which they take place. Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance provides a detailed, wide-ranging look at how modern governments operate, how they got this far, and where they're headed for the future. - From the Book
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Public administration. Globalization--Social aspects. Globalization--Political aspects.