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作者：HOOD, C
摘要：This article briefly examines five subfields of the public administration literature in the context of the major changes which have occurred in each of those fields since the 1940s. Major changes include: the alleged shift to 'globalization' affecting comparative public administration; the spread of 'economic rationalism' in policy analysis; the new wave of 'managerialism' affecting the study of the public service; the transformation of administrative technique by 'informatization'; and the ri...
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作者：PAGE, EC
摘要：According to a strict definition, comparative public administration in Britain is relatively undeveloped. However, once the definition is relaxed it is possible to see that scholars in the British Isles make a substantial contribution to the field. This contribution can be examined under four headings; single country studies, juxtapositions, thematic comparisons and causal explanations. While causal explanation must remain as one major objective of comparative study, such explanations are prob...
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作者：GRAY, A; JENKINS, B
摘要：Changes to the study of public administration tend to follow those in the practice of the administration of government. The recent shift to public management is characterized and assessed both as a practice and a field of study. The result has been less a revolution in paradigm than the emergence of a vision of government which competes with but does not supplant traditional public administration.
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作者：DUNSIRE, A
摘要：The last fifteen years or so saw a flourish and then the surprising collapse of implementation process theory and contingency theory. Despite the enormous popular (and international) impact of privatization in these years, there was oddly little British administrative research in that area, although other aspects of 'the Thatcherite Revolution', especially 'the new public management', cultural change, and the divestment of executive work by Whitehall departments, were well covered. Growth poin...
