Are the forces of globalization making governments and their public bureaucracies more similar? Or are there patterns of administration in different countries that persist despite international pressures and despite the importance of ideas such as the New Public Management? This book examines these questions by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist in a wide range of countries across the world. It assesses the impact of these traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration. Tradition and Public Administration is a comprehensive account of the underlying patterns of administration and their impact on change.
PART I INTRODUCTION
The Analysis of Administrative Traditions; M.Painter & B.G.Peters
PART II EMPRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITIONS
Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids; M.Painter & B.G.Peters
Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: a Preliminary Assessment; A.B.L.Cheung
Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges; O.P.Dwivedi& D.S.Mishra
Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh; A.S.Huque
Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa; G.Hyden
Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan; M.Painter
Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion?; M.Lodge
Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?; B.G.Peters
The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era; J.Halligan
PART III LEGACY EFFECTS: ADMINISTRATIVE REFROM AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRADITION
The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure; K.Yesilkagit
Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: the Weight of Legacy Explanations; P.Bezes
The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain; E.Ongaro
Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?; J.Pierre
In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe; J-H. Meyer-Sahling
The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories; T.Verheijen
Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative Change; M.Painter & B.G.Peters
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