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Administrative Reform Comes of Age / Gerald E. Caiden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caiden, Gerald E., author.
- Series:
- De Gruyter studies in organization ; 28.
- de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 28
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Administrative agencies--Reorganization.
- Administrative agencies.
- Executive departments--Reorganization.
- Executive departments.
- Public administration.
- Organizational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lost Innocence
- 3. The Way Things Were
- 4. The Unrewarding Search for Communality
- 5. Administrative Reform Breaks Loose
- 6. In Pursuit of Betterment
- 7. Administrative Malpractices
- 8. Doing Something Different
- 9. Guarding Against Failure
- 10. Reforms in the East: Retreat from Bureaucratic Centralism
- 11. Reforms in the West: Changing Administrative Values
- 12. Reforms in the Third World: Almost Beyond Realization
- 13. Unfinished Business
- 14. Necessary Preventive Medicine
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-334) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110870152
- 3110870150
- OCLC:
- 922950719
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