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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

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