Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

by K. Henderson (Editor), O. Dwivedi (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333733547
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/03/1999
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

Table of Contents

List of Tables Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations Notes of the Editors and Contributors PART 1: PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION Development Administration: An Overview; O.P.Dwivedi Alternative Administration: Human Needs Centred and Sustainable; O.P.Dwivedi & K.M.Henderson A Third Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives; K.M.Henderson Inclusive Administration and Development: Feminist Critiques of Bureaucracy; R.Tremblay Ecological Principles, Emerging Organisational Forms, and Postmodernism; J.Mercier PART 2: REGIONAL STUDIES Bureaucracy and its Alternatives in East and Southeast Asia; M.Turner & J.Halligan Governance and Administration in South Asia; O.P.Dwivedi Redynamising the African Civil Service for the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for a Non-Bureaucratic Structure; M.Jide Balogun & G.Mutahaba Alternative Administration: A Southern African Perspective; V.G.Hilliard & H.F.Wissink Bureaucracy and Its Alternatives in the Middle East; A.Farazmand Development Administration and Its Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean; C.Meacham PART 3: FUTURE DIRECTIONS What Lies Ahead for the Administrative State?; G.Caiden Index

Editorial Reviews

Examines bureaucracy and alternatives to it in the developing world, focusing on public administration and a full range of options to the status quo, many of them outside the realm of the conventional. Extends the concern with bureaucratic reform, based on New Public Management, World Bank/IMF, and other Northern thinking, to a full range of ideas and practices, discussing other models of administration such as NGOs, Islamic revivalism, and ecological administration. Henderson is a professor of political science at SUNY- Buffalo. Dwivedi teaches public and environmental administration at the University of Guelph. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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