Training Public Administrators Around the World

by Nagel, Stuart S.

• ISBN13: 9781567202984
• ISBN10: 1567202985
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

How do public sector professionals train others to become capable, effective administrators? Nagel and the contributors to this wide-ranging investigation cover all the main problem areas, from personnel motivating to the imposition of sanctions. They identify problems and show how things are done to solve them in Africa, Asia, East and West Europe, Latin America and North America. Their book stresses the importance of well-trained public administrators, and covers the controversial aspects of public administration training, plus the integration of public policy substance with administrative procedures. A major source of information for administrators already in government and students aspiring to it.

Author Biography

STUART S. NAGEL is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also Secretary-Treasurer and Publications Coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization and coordinator of the Dirksen-Stevenson Institute and the MKM Research Center, also at Urbana-Champaign. A prolific writer and editor, he lists among his more recent Quorum books Super Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy (1997), Legal Scholarship, Microcomputers, and Super-Optimizing Decision-Making (1993), and Computer-Aided Decision Analysis (1993).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(11)
Stuart S. Nagel
Part I Asia
Public Administration in Australia: The Changing Paradigm	11	(22)
Allan Peachment
The Development of New Public Administrators in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	33	(28)
Peter K. W. Fong
Part II Europe
Education for Public Administration in Slovenia	61	(14)
Miha Brejc
The Challenge of Training in the Transition from Communism	75	(14)
Artashes Gazaryan
Jurgita Kersyte
Part III Latin America
Human Resources and Argentine Public Administration	89	(20)
Laura Zuvanic
Graciela Guidobono
Part IV Middle East
Training Public Employees in Saudi Arabia	109	(16)
Mohammed Al-Bishi
Part V North America
Action Training for Administrative Reform	125	(36)
Yues Poulin
John Dewey, Democratic Values, and Social Change in Public-Administration Education	161	(10)
Laurance R. Geri
Selected Bibliography	171	(6)
Index	177	(6)
About the Editor and Contributors	183