Ali Farazmand

Administrative Reform in Developing Nations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors. This volume, with chapters written by authorities from around the world, provides information on administrative reform in varied nations. Following an introduction, which sets a theoretical framework, the book contains sections devoted to Asia, the Near/Middle East, Africa, and a comparison of East/South Europe and Asia. Administrative reform has become a widespread challenge to national and sub-national governments around the globe. Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors. This volume, with chapters written by authorities from around the world, provides information on administrative reform in varied nations. Developing nations face acute problems on a daily basis, making administrative reform an essential function of public administration. With chapters devoted to experiences in such nations as Korea, India, Iran, Turkey, the Arab States, Nigeria, and South Africa, this volume sheds valuable light on administrative reform in developing countries and provides lessons for future policy actions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780275972127
• ISBN-10: 0275972127
• Artikelnr.: 21380945

Autorenporträt

ALI FARAZMAND is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the MPA program at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Handbook of Comparative and Developmental Public Administration (1991), Handbook of Bureaucracy (1994), and State, Bureaucracy, and Revolution in Modern Iran (Praeger, 1989).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Administrative Reform and Development by Ali
Farazmand Administrative Reform in Asia Innovation for Administrative
Reforms in Korea: A Case of Local Autonomy System by Jong-Hae Yoo
Administrative Reforms in India by Krishna Tummala Toward Good Governance
in Bangladesh: External Intervention, Bureaucratic Inertia, and Political
Inaction by Habib Zafraullah Resistance to Administrative Reforms in South
Asian Civil Bureaucracies by Mohammad Mohabbat Khan Administrative Reform
in Hong Kong by Ahmed Shafiqul Haque Administrative Reform, Reorganization,
and Revolution in the Near/Middle East Reorganization, Reform, and
Revolution in Contemporary Iran by Ali Farazmand Political Dynamics and
Administrative Reform in Turkey by A. Umit Berman and Metin Heper
Predicament of Administrative Reform in the Arab States by Jamil Jreisat
Administrative Reform in Africa Decentralization and Development
Adminstration in Nigeria by Olatunde and Peter Koehn The Role of Human
Resources Management in South African Public Service Reform by Victor
Hiliard Civil Service Reform in a Developing Country: A Critique of the
Management and Administration of the Zimbabwe Reform Program by Hope Sadza
Administrative Reform in East/South Europe and Asia Compared Hungarian
Local Government Transition From Communism to Capitalist Democracy by Terry
Buss Administrative Reform Difficulties and the Role of Religion: Greece,
South Korea, and Thailand by Constantine Danopoulos, and Dongsung Kong, and
Ronald Sylvia Index