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Part I - Public Administration, new public management and governance: concepts and contestabilities 1. Public administration, public management and governance -- Robert Pyper 2. Governance: a typology and some challenges -- Geert Bourckaert 3. Governance: if governance is everything, maybe it's nothing -- Perri 6 4. Executive governance and its puzzles -- R.A.W. Rhodes and Anne Tiernam 5. Paradigms of non-Western public administration and governance -- Wolfgang Drechsler Part II - International perpectives of public administration, new oublic management and governance 6. Public service reform in South Africa: from apartheid to new public management -- Robert Cameron 7. The political economy of administrative reforms in Egypt: governance, reforms and chellenges -- Ahmed Badran 8. The Canadian public service: in search of a new equilibrium -- Donald J. Savoie 9. Public administration and governance in the USA -- Greg Andranovich, J. Theodore Anagnoson 10. Public administration in Brazil: structure, reforms, and participation -- Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Leonardo Secchi 11. Public administration in Latin America: adaptation to a new democratic reality -- Guillermo M. Cejudo 12. Administrative developments in India -- krishna K. Tummala 13. The Tao os governance: public administration reform in China -- Zhichang Zhu 14. CapacIty, complexity and public sector reform in Australia -- John Halligan 15. Australia: building policy capacity for managing wicked policy problems -- Brian W. Head, Janine O'Flynn 16. The state and perceptions of public sector reform in Europe -- -- Dion Curry, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Sebastian Jilke and Steven Van de Walle 17. Government challengs in Slovenia at a time of global economic crisis and austerity measures -- Stanka Setnikar Cankar, Veronika Petkovsek 18. United Kingdom: government, governance and public administration complexity -- Duncan McTavish