The Administrative Factor: Papers in Organization, Politics and Development

ISBN-13: 9780367143633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 330 str.

Bernard Schaffer

Opis

Originally published in 1973, the chapters in this volume tackle a wide range of problems arising from this process of modernization.

Spis treści

Part I: Administration and Organization.  1. The Idea of the Ministerial Department: Bentham, Mill and Bagehot.  2. Sir Arthur Helps and the Art of Administration.  3. Public Administration adn the Political Education.  4. Theory and Practice in the Machinery of Government.  5. Brownlow or Brookings: Approaches to the Improvement of the Machinery of Government.  Part 2: Men and Methods.  6. The Distinction between Executive and Administrative Work.  7. Staff Conditions and Careers as a Problem of Management.  8. The Conditions of the Public Establishments: Fulton in Winter.  Part 3: Public Policy Decisions: The Institutional Impact.  9. Policy and System in Defence.  10. Decision-Making and the Civil-Military Experience.  11. The Concept of Preparation.  12. Advising about Development.  13. Some Possible Meanings of Development Administration.  14. Public Employment, Political Rights and Political Development.  15. Comparisons, Administration and Development.  16. 'Easiness of Access': A Concept of Queues.

O autorze

Bernard Schaffer