TY - BOOK AU - Painter, Martin, ed. AU - Peters, B. Guy, ed. TI - Tradition and public administration SN - 9780230575660 U1 - 351 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Public administration KW - Comparative government KW - Administrative agencies--Reorganization--Evaluation N1 - The analysis of administrative traditions ; Administrative traditions in comparative perspective : families, groups and hybrids / Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters -- Checks and balance in China's administrative traditions : a preliminary assessment / Anthony B.L. Cheung -- Administrative tradition in India : issues of convergence, persistence, divergence and challenges / O.P. Dwivedi and D.S. Mishra -- Traditions and bureaucracy in Bangladesh / Ahmed Shafiqul Huque -- Where administrative traditions are alien : implications for reform in Africa / Goran Hyden -- Legacies remembered, lessons forgotten : the case of Japan / Martin Painter -- Public service bargains in British central government : multiplication, diversification and reassertion? / Martin Lodge -- Public administration in the United States : Anglo-American, just American, or which American? / B. Guy Peters -- The fate of administrative tradition in Anglophone countries during the reform era / John Halligan -- The future of administrative tradition : tradition as ideas and structure / Kutsal Yesilkagit -- Path-dependent and path-breaking changes in the French administrative system : the weight of legacy explanations / Philippe Bezes -- The Napoleonic adminstrative tradition and public management reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain / Edoardo Ongaro -- Administrative reform in Sweden : the resilience of administrative tradition? / Jon Pierre -- In search of the shadow of the past : legacy explanations and administrative reform in post-Communist East Central Europe / Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling -- The new member states of the European Union : constructed and historical traditions and reform trajectories / Tony Verheijen -- Conclusion : Administrative traditions in an era of administrative change / B. Guy Peters and Martin Painter ER -