Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and functio

Contemporary administrative reforms push administrative systems to homogenize. This book documents, however, the persistence of administrative traditions in a n

The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philos

Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack