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1 The Analysis of Administrative Traditions |
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3 | (16) |
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How can we understand the lagacy of the past? |
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4 | (2) |
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What variables can define the traditions? |
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6 | (2) |
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8 | (2) |
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Four reasons for analyzing administrative traditions |
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10 | (3) |
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13 | (6) |
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Part II Empirical Analysis of Administrative Traditions |
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2 Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids |
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19 | (12) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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The Scandinavian tradition |
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23 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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Postcolonial South Asia and Africa |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (1) |
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3 Checks and Balance in China's Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment |
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31 | (13) |
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Evolution of the traditional Chinese administrative system |
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32 | (6) |
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Notions of `organizing' government in imperial China |
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38 | (2) |
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The administrative legacy and its implications |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (2) |
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4 Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges |
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44 | (13) |
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Ancient and medieval India |
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46 | (1) |
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Indo-British administration: From the East India Company to the British Raj |
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47 | (2) |
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Administrative development in the postindependence period |
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49 | (2) |
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India's administrative culture: In heritances under stress? |
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51 | (1) |
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Democratic decentralization through people's participation |
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52 | (1) |
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Administration in the liberalized era: Issues of convergence and divergence |
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53 | (2) |
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Conclusions: Persistence and challenge |
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55 | (2) |
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5 Traditions and Bureaucracy in Bangladesh |
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57 | (12) |
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A neocolonial bureaucracy |
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58 | (3) |
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Administrative reform in Bangladesh |
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61 | (4) |
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Drivers and impediments to reform |
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65 | (1) |
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Conclusion: Bureaucracy as usual |
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66 | (3) |
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6 Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa |
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69 | (15) |
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Factors explaining African governance institutions |
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70 | (1) |
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The colonial administrative legacy |
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71 | (3) |
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The transformation of administration after independence |
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74 | (5) |
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The Anglophone experience in comparative perspective |
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79 | (1) |
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Implications for public sector reform |
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80 | (3) |
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83 | (1) |
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7 Legacies Remembered, Lessons Forgotten: The Case of Japan |
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84 | (15) |
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84 | (1) |
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Transplants, hybrids and administrative traditions |
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85 | (2) |
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Confucian and continental: Meiji Japan and the modernization project |
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87 | (4) |
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Sectionalism, transcendence and the `democratic irritant' |
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91 | (5) |
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96 | (3) |
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8 Public Service Bargains in British Central Government: Multiplication, Diversification and Reassertion? |
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99 | (15) |
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The traditional public service bargain - broken and discarded? |
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100 | (5) |
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Multiplication and diversification of public service bargains at the center |
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105 | (4) |
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Layering and interaction effects |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (4) |
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9 Public Administration in the United States: Anglo-American, Just American, or Which American? |
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114 | (15) |
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The Anglo-American tradition |
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115 | (2) |
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117 | (6) |
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American unexceptionalism |
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123 | (2) |
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The future - directions for reform? |
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125 | (1) |
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Summary - conflict of doctrine and reality |
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126 | (3) |
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10 The Fate of Administrative Tradition in Anglophone Countries during the Reform Era |
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129 | (16) |
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Approaches to administrative tradition |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (1) |
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Reform and country consequences |
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134 | (4) |
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138 | (3) |
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Implications and conclusion |
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141 | (4) |
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Part III Legacy Effects: Administrative Reform and Administrative Tradition |
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11 The Future of Administrative Tradition: Tradition as Ideas and Structure |
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145 | (13) |
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Administrative tradition in models of administrative reform |
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146 | (2) |
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Conceptualizing administrative traditions |
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148 | (3) |
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The causal mechanisms of administrative traditions |
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151 | (4) |
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155 | (3) |
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12 Path-Dependent and Path-Breaking Changes in the French Administrative System: The Weight of Legacy Explanations |
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158 | (16) |
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Path-dependency mechanisms in the French administration: The weight of institutional legacies |
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159 | (8) |
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Budgetary reform: Path-breaking change in the French context |
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167 | (5) |
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172 | (2) |
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13 The Napoleonic Administrative Tradition and Public Management Reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain |
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174 | (17) |
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Relationship of state and society |
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174 | (2) |
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Connection of the state to social actors |
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176 | (1) |
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Relationship of the public bureaucracy to other institutions of the state |
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177 | (2) |
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The importance of law as distinct from management |
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179 | (1) |
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Accountability: The role of law as the primary mechanism for controlling bureaucracy |
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180 | (1) |
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Current features of the Napoleonic administrative tradition |
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180 | (4) |
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Do contemporary administrative systems in the five countries reflect a clearly identifiable common underlying tradition? |
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184 | (1) |
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Implications for public management reform |
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185 | (4) |
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189 | (2) |
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14 Administrative Reform in Sweden: The Resilience of Administrative Tradition? |
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191 | (12) |
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The Swedish case in global perspective |
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192 | (1) |
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The trajectory of administrative reform in Sweden |
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193 | (6) |
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Conclusions: The resilience of administrative traditions in Sweden |
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199 | (4) |
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15 In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe |
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203 | (14) |
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Civil service governance in post-communist Hungary |
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206 | (3) |
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`Goulash Communism' and the first civil service reform in post-communist Hungary |
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209 | (2) |
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Civil service governance and the indirect effect of the communist legacy |
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211 | (3) |
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214 | (3) |
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16 The New Member States of the European Union: Constructed and Historical Traditions and Reform Trajectories |
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217 | (17) |
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European traditions and the benchmarking approach: Towards a constructed tradition? |
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218 | (5) |
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`New Europeans': Towards the European administrative tradition? |
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223 | (5) |
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Possible causes and likely trajectories |
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228 | (4) |
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Constructed and historical traditions |
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232 | (2) |
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17 Conclusion: Administrative Traditions in an Era of Administrative Change |
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234 | (4) |
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235 | (3) |
References |
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Index |
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