Originally published in 1974, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature about the African context of public administration. .
Originally published in 1974, this book is a valuable contribution to the literature about the African context of public administration. The application of research to public administration and the communication of research findings are discussed in depth. All aspects of the subject are presented: non-university based, non-academic institutes as well as undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. The book concludes with some non-African comparisons from Australia, France, the USA and UK.
1. Education and Research in Public Administration in Africa An
Overview Adebayo Adedeji Part 1: A General Review
2. Major Issues in Public
Administration Education and Research for Development D. C. Stone
3.
Assessing the Effectiveness of administrative Training in Africa J. H. Gilmer
4. African Institutes of Public Administration: Towards the End of the
Beginning L. Rowland Part 2: Public Administration Education
5. The Rationale
and Scope of Graduate Programmes in Public Administration in Africa Adebayo
Adedeji
6. The Zaria Experience in Teaching Public Administration at
Undergraduate Level Edward Muth and Roger Simmons
7. Undergraduate-Level
Teaching in Public Administration in Africa: A Comparative Study of
Francophone and Anglophone Approaches Ladipo Adamolekun
8. Teaching Public
Administration in Congo-Kinshasa Jeswald W. Salacuse
9. Teaching Public
Administration in Ghana D. K. Greenstreet and James Nti
10. Teaching Public
Administration in Malawi Colin Baker
11. Teaching Public Administration in
Nigeria Omorogbe Nwanwene
12. Teaching Public Administration in the Sudan
Muddathir Abdel-Rahim
13. Teaching Public Administration in the United Arab
Republic I. A. El Borollosy Part 3: Public Administration Research
14. An
Historiographical Perspective on Administrative Studies in Africa A. H. M.
Kirk-Greene
15. The Strategy for Basic Research D. J. Murray
16. Basic
Research: Priorities and Strategies David Kimble
17. Research Methodology and
Communication of Research Findings Goran Hyden Part 4: Some Non-African
Comparisons
18. Australia R. N. Spann
19. France F. Gazier
20. The United
Kingdom A. H. Hanson
21. The United States of America E. V. Mittlebeeler
Adebayo Adedeji was Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Economic Development and Reconstruction from 1971 to 1975. In June 1975, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and remained in this position until July 1991. He founded the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), a non-governmental independent continental non-profit, think-tank dedicated to multi-disciplinary and strategic studies on and for Africa. Adedeji was elected a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 1991.
Colin Baker was Principal of the Institute of Public Administration, University of Malawi and an acknowledged authority on the government and administration of Malawi. He was Deputy Director of the Insitute of Administration, University of Ife, Nigeria.
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