Tradition and public administration / 
editado por Martin Painter e B. Guy Peters. -- 
 - Reino Unido :  Palgrave Macmillan,   2010. 
 - 274 p. :  grafs. 
<br/><br/>Inclui bibliografia. 
<br/><br/> Part I - Introduction  1. The Analysis of Administrative Traditions. -- Martin Painter, B. Guy Peters  Part II - Empirical Analysis of Administrative Traditions  2. Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids. -- Martin Painter, B. Guy Peters  3. Checks and Balance in China’s Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment. -- Anthony B. L. Cheung  4. Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges. -- O. P. Dwivedi, D. S. Mishra  5. Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh. -- Ahmed Shapqul Huque  6. Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa. -- Goran Hyden  7. Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan. -- Martin Painter  8. Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion?. -- Martin Lodge  9. Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American?. -- B. Guy Peters  10. The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era. -- John Halligan  Part III - Legacy Effects: Administrative Reform and Administrative Tradition  11. The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure. -- Kutsal Yesilkagit  12. Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: The Weight of Legacy Explanations. -- Philippe Bezes  13. The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. -- Edoardo Ongaro  14. Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition?. -- Jon Pierre  15. In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe. -- Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling  16. The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories. -- Tony Verheijen  17. Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative Change. -- B. Guy Peters, Martin Painter  References  Index 
<br/><br/><br/>Texto completo em inglês. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978023057566 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Administração Pública<br/> Administração Federal<br/>Aspecto Cultural<br/>Antropologia Social e Cultural