Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781349407354 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 330 str.

K. Henderson;O. Dwivedi;Professor Timothy M. Shaw

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.