Comparative public administration and policy / Jamil E. Jreisat

Globalism and Comparative Public Administration -- Evolution of the Comparative Drive -- Accomplishments -- Evaluative Discourse -- National Public Bureaucracy: A Unit for Comparison -- Elements of the Classic Bureaucratic Model -- Attacks on the Bureaucracy -- Comparative Research and Methods -- The Unit of Analysis -- The Context (the Environment) -- What Method for Research? -- Comparative Public Policy -- Concepts and Definitions -- Public Policy and Administrative Discretion -- Comparative Politics and Comparative Administration -- Administration of Developing Countries -- Understanding Development -- The Implementation Challenge -- Attributes of Public Administration in Developing Countries -- Administration of Developed Systems -- Limiting Central Powers: Building Institutional Foundations -- Impact of Science and Rationalism -- The New Public Management -- Common Administrative Features.