Tradition and Public Administration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Analysis of Administrative Traditions

      • Martin Painter, B. Guy Peters

      Pages 3-16

3. Empirical Analysis of Administrative Traditions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids

      • Martin Painter, B. Guy Peters

      Pages 19-30

   3. Checks and Balance in China’s Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment

      • Anthony B. L. Cheung

      Pages 31-43

   4. Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges

      • O. P. Dwivedi, D. S. Mishra

      Pages 44-56

   5. Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh

      • Ahmed Shapqul Huque

      Pages 57-68

   6. Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa

      • Goran Hyden

      Pages 69-83

   7. Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan

      • Martin Painter

      Pages 84-98

   8. Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion?

      • Martin Lodge

      Pages 99-113

   9. Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?

      • B. Guy Peters

      Pages 114-128

   10. The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era

       • John Halligan

       Pages 129-142

4. Legacy Effects: Administrative Reform and Administrative Tradition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

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   2. The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure

      • Kutsal Yesilkagit

      Pages 145-157

   3. Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: The Weight of Legacy Explanations

      • Philippe Bezes

      Pages 158-173

   4. The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain

      • Edoardo Ongaro

      Pages 174-190

   5. Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?

      • Jon Pierre

      Pages 191-202

   6. In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe

      • Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

      Pages 203-216

   7. The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories

      • Tony Verheijen

      Pages 217-233

Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.

• bureaucracy
• Central government
• communism
• European Union (EU)
• Familie
• Government
• Nation
• public administration
• public management
• reforms
• service
• us politics

• City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Martin Painter

• University of Pittsburgh, USA

  B. Guy Peters

PHILIPPE BEZES Senior Research Fellow (National Center for Scientific Research) at the the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de Science Administrative (CERSA, Université of Paris 2) and lecturer in Public Policy and Public Administration at Sciences-Po in Paris, France ANTHONY B. L. CHEUNG President of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, and also Chair Professor of Public Administration O. P. DWIVEDI, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Canada JOHN HALLIGAN Research Professor of Government and Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia AHMED SHAFIQUL HUQUE Associate Professor, Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Canada GORAN HYDEN Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, USA MARTIN LODGE Reader in Political Science and Public Policy at the Department of Government and the ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, UK D. S. MISHRA is an Indian Administrative Service officer and is currently Chief Vigilance Officer in the Airports Authority of India EDOARDO ONGARO is Professor of Public Management at SDA Bocconi School of Management and a lecturer of Management of International and Supranational Organisations at Università Bocconi of Milan, Italy JON PIERRE Research Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA JAN-HINRIKMEYER-SAHLING Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Nottingham, School of Politics and International Relations, UK TONY VERHEIJEN Senior Public Sector Specialist at the Africa Public Sector Reform and Capacity Building Department of the World Bank KUTSAL YESILKAGIT Associate Professor at the School of Governance of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands

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