Tradition and Public Administration

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

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Public Policy, Political Science, Public Administration, Sociology, general, US Politics, Globalization