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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of comparative public administration based on the author's three decades of teaching and research in this realm. It offers the reader a view of where the field has been, where it is, and what options are possible for the future.

A critique of the institutional systems and practices that define, and in many cases limit, the administrative state in the Arab world, this study centres on the factors contributing to the failure of development efforts. This book looks at the way context and culture affect state capacity.

This book explores how the theories and practices of public management have evolved. It covers themes such as political, judicial, and cultural environments. It reviews the influential theoretical developments that represent the intellectual heritage of public administration from Woodrow Wilson and the classics to current schools such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and the drive for reinventing government. The author identifies and explains...

Governance is not a topic that easily lends itself to neat and precise definitions. Although concepts and practices of governance are profoundly under-specified, they are frequently associated with three dimensions: how and why governments are structured, what processes they employ in governing, and what results they are able to accomplish in serving their societies. The articles in this book represent a wide range of scholarly interests that ...

Exploring how the theories and practices of public management have evolved, this text covers themes such as political, judicial and cultural environments. It reviews the theoretical developments from Woodrow Wilson and the classics to current schools such as Total Quality Management.