Comparative Public Management: Putting U.S. Public Policy and Implementation in Context

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In this new approach to a comparative text in public management, Randall Baker examines how, why, and to what extent the public sector around the world has shared in the management revolution. The book is designed to isolate and demonstrate the essential American-ness of the United States' public service by holding it up to the mirror of other developed democracies. While there are lessons to be learned from other countries, Baker and his expert contributors examine the complexities of making comparisons across cultures, even within broadly similar democratic systems, and urban-industrial economies. The volume concludes with a list of sectoral cases. These comprise most of the main dimensions of public-sector activity around the world. They are the main elements of many graduate professional degrees in public affairs, and the material has been written with the needs of both practitioners and teachers in mind. This is essential reading for all concerned with public management and administration as well as comparative government.

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"Unlike business administration, public administration, in general, has not introduced the international dimension in the public policy and public management curriculum. Comparative Public Management: Putting U.S. Public Policy in Context provides a useful and timely resource in filling this void. Its major purpose is not to introduce comparative study as a field or concentration, but to introduce and consider the international context and dimension in all elements of the public policy and public administration curriculum. In so doing, it will enhance the capacity of the American public administrator to perform more effectively for the American public in an interdependent world community."-from the foreword by Alfred M. Zuck, Executive Director National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration
This will be a good reference for students of public administration.-International Review of Administrative Sciences
"This will be a good reference for students of public administration."-International Review of Administrative Sciences

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RANDALL BAKER is Professor and Director of International Programs, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University. He is the author of numerous books and articles in comparative public management and environmental policy analysis.