Global dimensions of public administration and governance : a comparative voyage / Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Eran Vigoda-Gadot, with Mirit Kisner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raadschelders, J. C. N., author.

Vigoda-Gadot, Eran, author.

Kisner, Mirit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Comparative government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (579 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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, a

Contents:

Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Authors; 1 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 One: The Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Government: Structuring Territory and Organization2 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 States as Upper-Local Polities; A Global Model of Government Development; The Development of Thinking about Government: From Political Theory to Public Administration; Comparing Government Models: Concluding Remarks

3. Structuring Governance and Government: The Layered Territorial and Bureaucratic Organization of the WorldTerritoriality and Property; Territorialization of the World; International Boundaries; Subnational Jurisdictions: Historical Trends; Subnational Jurisdictions: The Contemporary Situation; Bureaucracy as Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratization of the World; The Influence of Colonization; Concluding Remarks: Boundaries Creating Polities; 4. 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?; 5. Political-Administrative Systems and Multilevel Government; Basic Distinctions of Political Systems; Five Types of Political Systems in Relation to Political Party System; Unitary and Federal Systems; Typologies of Democratic Systems; Presidential and Parliamentary Systems; Party-Political and Bureaucratic-Prominent Systems

The Three Branches of Government and Core Features of Democratic Political SystemsThe Structure of Government Departments; Multilevel and Multiactor Government and Governance; Concluding Remarks; 6. 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

7. Organization, Management, and Policy: Comparing the Competencies of Government and Public Administration

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 11, 2015).

ISBN:

9781119026129

1119026121

9781119026259

1119026253

OCLC:

900781286