Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration

With contributions from nearly 80 international experts this comprehensive resource covers diverse issues aspects and features of public administration and policy around the world. It focuses on bureaucracy and bureaucratic politics in developing and industrialized countries and emphasizing administrative performance and policy implementation as well as political system maintenance and regime enhancement. The book covers the history of public administration and bureaucracy in Persia Greece Rome and Byzantium and among the Aztecs Incas and Mayas public administration in small island states Eastern Europe and ethics and other contemporary issues in public administration.