The first truly comparative text in public management.
In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution. The book is designed to isolate and demonstrate the essential American-ness of the United States' public service by holding it up to the mirror of other developed democracies. While there are lessons to be learned from other countries, Baker and his expert contributors examine the complexities of making comparisons across cultures, even within broadly similar democratic systems, and urban-industrial economies.
The volume concludes with a list of sectoral cases. These comprise most of the main dimensions of public-sector activity around the world. They are the main elements of many graduate professional degrees in public affairs, and the material has been written with the needs of both practitioners and teachers in mind. This is essential reading for all concerned with public management and administration as well as comparative government.
Foreword by Alfred M. Zuck
Prologue
Comparative Public Management: Coming In from the Cold by Randall Baker
The Impact of International Trade and Direct Foreign Investment on the National and Subnational Levels: An Overview by Curtis Ventriss
The Importance of Comparative Study in Educating the U.S. Public Service by Richard W. Ryan
Why Has Bureaucracy Not Smothered Democracy in the United States? by Fred W. Riggs
Democracy versus Bureaucracy: Transforming the Nature of the Civil Service in Bulgaria by Randall Baker
Theory and Methodology in the Study of Comparative Public Administration by B. Guy Peters
Comparative Civil Service Research: The Strategic Agenda by Eugene B. McGregor and Paul Solano
Administrative Reform by Gerald Caiden
Comparative Perspectives on Public Finance by Larry Schroeder
The Management of Public Budgeting by Naomi Caiden
Projects, Plans, and Programs by Steven H. Arnold and E. Philip Morgan
Comparative Intergovernmental Relations by Robert Agranoff
Central Issues in Comparative Analysis of Criminal Justice Systems and Criminal Policy: The Need for a Comparative Approach by Wolfgang Dechsel
Human Resources Management by Lois R. Wise
Environmental Policy and Management in the European Community and the United States, A Comparison by Mariette C. S. Glim
Information Resource Management: A Framework for Comparison by Rolland Hurtubise
Comparative Industrial Policy by Roy W. Shin
Privatization: A Comparative Focus by Donald E. Fuller
Index
Endorsements
Unlike business administration, public administration, in general, has not introduced the international dimension in the public policy and public management curriculum. Comparative Public Management: Putting U.S. Public Policy in Context provides a useful and timely resource in filling this void. Its major purpose is not to introduce comparative study as a field or concentration, but to introduce and consider the international context and dimension in all elements of the public policy and public administration curriculum. In so doing, it will enhance the capacity of the American public administrator to perform more effectively for the American public in an interdependent world community.—from the foreword by Alfred M. Zuck, Executive Director National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
