COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or instructor permission. Cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-institutional survey of public administration organizations and practices around the world. Examination of administrative systems of northern nation-states and the processes of administrative change in post-Communist and southern nation-states; evolution of administration; structure of administrative systems; personnel; budgeting; ethics and legal frameworks; role of administration in economic development; transfer of administrative skills; regional and international administrative organizations; theoretical approaches and methodological issues in understanding similarities and differences in administrative behavior.