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This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries ma...

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This text is about the theory and practice of public administration in a dynamic age of globalization.

This text is about the theory and practice of public administration in a dynamic age of globalization.

Presents an analysis of bureaucracies worldwide and their effect on politics and society. This book explores the historical antecedents of bureaucracy. It also presents a review of theoretical and conceptual perspectives on bureaucracies and bureaucratic politics, followed by empirical studies.

The success or failure of empires, nation-states and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative volume, Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part One, the book examines the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential and parliamentary systems. The contributors to th...

Comparative study of public enterprise management in different countries around the world, pointing to historical trends and current issues and problems. Experts survey an interesting collection of countries in the Americas, Asia, the Middle/Near East, Europe, and Australia. They also discuss public enterprise management education. References with each chapter contribute to the usefulness of this assessment for political scientists, public adm...

Examining emergency responses to environmental dangers and natural disasters, this book provides coverage of a range of international issues using empirical and quantitative analyses. It discusses various approaches to such topics as resolving political tension, the potential use of biological weapons, and the role of public relations in crisis.

The economic, political, and cultural forces of globalization affect every citizen of the world--and the institutions that govern them. Against a backdrop of increasing resistance to these forces, especially in the developing world, this volume establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for analyzing the effects of globalization on nation-states, local governments, nongovernmental and international organizations, and other administr...

As the world becomes more populated and globally connected, issues in security, systems viability, and the future must be addressed and managed. This book navigates the increasingly complicated advances in theory and practice in the twin fields of crisis and emergency management. It focuses on globalization, its causes, consequences (both positive and negative), and implications for crisis and emergency management worldwide.

Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors. This volume, with chapters written by authorities from around the world, provides information on administrative reform in varied nations. Following an introduction, which sets a theoretical fram...

Challenging the prevailing view of privatization, this book analyzes the state of privatization around the world and offers policy suggestions. It includes original material of an analytical, empirical, and case study nature on the theory and practice of privatization, its relationship with the globalization of capital, its political and ideological underpinnings, its political, social, and economic consequences around the world. Its originali...

Farazmand and his contributors examine organizations of all kinds, types, and functions. They explain organization as (1) an organization of society with roles in the distribution and exercise of power by power elites--currently dominated by corporate power structure--and (2) as an organizing activity to accomplished human tasks and to solve problems. They also provide a succinct analysis of theoretical and conceptual perspectives on modern or...

Governments and public administration organizations must confront these challenges if they are to survive and thrive in the 21st century, and "Strategic Public Personnel Administration" provides a comprehensive analysis of the past development and current function of the field so as to give a clearly balanced picture of public personnel administration in both theory and practice.

Farazmand, a former bureaucrat in the Pahlavi state administration, argues that the latter functioned more to maintain the state and to control society than to provide its population with services and with help for development. In the long run, such a self-serving thrust proved destructive and was one reason for the state's final collapse in the 1979 revolution. ChoiceCovering the period from 1950 through 1988 this book examines the role of a ...

This is the first book to focus on select global cases from the perspective of best and worst practices in the context of crisis and emergency management. It brings together the most established scholars and experts in the field, offering theories along with an empirical success-and-failure analyses. With its combination of theory and practice and coverage of a wide range of disciplines, it provides an illuminating resource for policy experts,...

The success or failure of empires, nation-states and city-states often rests on the relationship between bureaucracy and politicians. In this provocative volume, Ali Farazmand examines the myriad relationships between politicians and bureaucrats. After introducing the basic elements of bureaucracies in Part One, the book examines the relations between bureaucrats and politicians in presidential and parliamentary systems. The contributors to th...