Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Authors -- 1 Globalization and Government: Combining Global and Comparative Perspectives upon the State of Modern Government -- Levels of Analysis and Understanding -- Globalization -- Combining a Global and Comparative Perspective -- Combining the Studies of Administration and Politics -- Audience for and Structure of This Book -- Concluding Remarks: ``Flying ́́and Comparing across the Globe -- Part One: The Origin, Development, and Dissemination of Government: Structuring Territory and Organization -- 2 The Roots and Development of Governance, Government, and Public Administration: The Envelopment of Local Communities in Upper-Local Polities over Time -- Types of Governing Associations -- All Government and Governance Started Local -- The Emergence of Territorial States as Upper-Local Polities -- A Global Model of Government Development -- The Development of Thinking about Government: From Political Theory to Public Administration -- Comparing Government Models: Concluding Remarks -- 3. Structuring Governance and Government: The Layered Territorial and Bureaucratic Organization of the World -- Territoriality and Property -- Territorialization of the World -- International Boundaries -- Subnational Jurisdictions: Historical Trends -- Subnational Jurisdictions: The Contemporary Situation -- Bureaucracy as Organizational Structure: The Bureaucratization of the World -- The Influence of Colonization -- Concluding Remarks: Boundaries Creating Polities -- 4. State Making, Nation Building, and Citizenship -- Defining State and Nation -- State Making: Models and Explanations -- The Separation of Organized Religion and the State: A Recent Phenomenon? -- Nation Building: From Subjects to Citizens.

Citizenship as Layered Phenomenon -- A Future for State, Nation, and Citizenship? -- 5. Political-Administrative Systems and Multilevel Government -- Basic Distinctions of Political Systems -- Five Types of Political Systems in Relation to Political Party System -- Unitary and Federal Systems -- Typologies of Democratic Systems -- Presidential and Parliamentary Systems -- Party-Political and Bureaucratic-Prominent Systems -- The Three Branches of Government and Core Features of Democratic Political Systems -- The Structure of Government Departments -- Multilevel and Multiactor Government and Governance -- Concluding Remarks -- 6. Bureaucratic Organization and Culture -- Defining Bureaucracy: The Influence of Max Weber and His Fears -- Bureaucracy in the Evolution of Human Communities: The Origin of the Stereotype? -- Societal Culture -- Organizational Culture -- Perceptions of Public Individuals -- Sucking Water from Straws or Opening the Tap in the Kitchen -- 7. Organization, Management, and Policy: Comparing the Competencies of Government and Public Administration -- The Human Side of Public Enterprise: Management, Organizations, and Behavior in Comparative Public Administration -- The Public Management Revolution: Comparative Views -- Comparing the Sectors -- The Implementation of NPM in Western Democracies -- The United States: Measuring Performance -- Britain: Who Comes First, the Public or the Nation? -- The European Continent: Cultural Gaps beyond a Few Generic Similarities -- Australia: The Administrative Responsibility Approach -- Canada: Collaboration in Research and the Shaping of Public Policy -- New Zealand: The Reshaping of Welfare Policy -- Israel: Decentralization and Privatization -- The Implementation of NPM in Other World Regions -- Asia -- Africa -- Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Other Countries.

The ``Dinosaur Syndrome ́́and the Comparative Movement: A Midrange Comment -- The Organization and Management of Global Policy and Public Administration -- Summary -- 8. Bureaucracy as Personnel System and Political-Administrative Relations -- The Importance of the Personnel Function for Responsive Government -- Defining Bureaucracy as Personnel System: Max Weber's Juridical Perspective -- Categories of Public Servants in a Sociological Perspective -- Variation in the Size of the Civil Service -- Political-Administrative Relations: Intertwinement, Politicization, and Consultation -- Development of the Personnel Function in Developed Countries -- The Organizational Level: Personnel Management Focused on the Organization -- The Individual Level: The Employee as a Person with Rights, Needs, and Feelings -- The Societal Environment: Public Pressure for Change -- Concluding Comments -- Part Two: Managing Policies: Continuity, Change, and Diversity -- 9. Traditional Government Activities I: National Defense, Police, Law and Order -- Atrocities of Man and Nature: National Defense and Emergency Management -- France: Europeanization, Professionalization, and the End of Conscription -- Israel: Militarized Society or Civilianized Military? -- United States: Resting on Its Laurels-FEMA's Vicissitudes from Ignominy to Luster and Vice Versa -- Internal Security: Enforcing Law and Order -- Colombia: A Quagmire of Guerillas, Drug Cartels, and Paramilitaries-Demilitarization Bogging Down -- South Africa: Post-Apartheid Community Policing-Transmuting the Police Force to a Police Service -- Britain: Integrating Offender Management-Performance, Contestability, and Amalgamation -- The Judiciary System: One State under the Rule of Law -- The People's Republic of China: The Silent Revolution-Rationalization, Modernization, and Constitutionalization.

The UN Security Council: Reforming a Perplexed Peacekeeper -- Germany: A Nonimmigration Nation, Rife with Immigrants-Article 16 of the Basic Law in the Limelight -- Comparing Defense, Police, and Judiciary across Nations -- 10. Traditional Government Activities II: Economy, Finance, and Taxation Systems -- Economy and Finance -- Romania: Restructuring Agriculture in a Transition Economy -- Spain: Faltering Growth, Wavering Employment Rates-An Economy Veering between Prosperity and Downspin -- Greece: Footing the Bill for Laxity during the Ostensive Boom Years -- Iran: The Paradox of Plenty-Replete with Hydrocarbon Reserves and Yet in a Pickle -- Tax Reforms: Taking for Giving -- Denmark: Searching for the Magic Bullet to Reduce Income Tax Pressures and Labor Costs -- Belgium: Spurring Unemployed and Low Earners into Labor -- Estonia: Going Flat-An Avant Garde That Has Become a Common Practice -- Comparing Economy, Finance, and Taxation Systems across Nations -- 11. Social-Economic Services: Energy Management, Planning and Zoning, Industry and Trade -- Energy Management -- Russia: The Kremlin's Bear Hug -- Germany: Renewable Energy Sources Come to the Throne -- California: A Calamity Precipitated by Deregulation -- India: A Public Leopard with Private Spots -- Planning and Zoning -- Zimbabwe: Land Reform in a Ruptured Ex-Colony -- New Zealand's Resource Management Act: A Spearhead of Sustainable Development -- Brazil: Frontiers, Landlords, Squatters, and a Vacillating Government -- Laos: The Desperate Ecocide of the Poor -- Industry and Trade -- Morocco: Liberalization of Trade and Tariff Reforms -- The Czech Republic: Cars, Motors, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) -- Canada: Trade Agreements with the Northern Empire -- Mexico: The Poor Cousin of NAFTA's Triad.

Comparing Energy Management, Planning and Zoning, and Industry and Trade across Nations -- 12. Welfare Services and Policies: Health Care, Education, and Social Services -- Health Care -- Singapore: The ``3Ms ́́triad-Medisave, Medishield, and Medifund -- The Netherlands: Dutch-Managed Competition-Getting the Full Monty -- Argentina: Promoting a Health Care System under a Sick Economy -- Australia: A Public-Private Seesaw -- Education -- Wisconsin: Vouchering Together-Unlikely Allies in Milwaukee -- France: Contractualization au Courant-Le Central Unleashes Higher Education -- The People's Republic of China: Between a Soviet Rock and a Western Hard Place-Higher Education on the Horns of a Dilemma -- Britain: New Right, New ERA, Old Cleavages -- Social Security -- Chile: Social Security Gone Outright Private -- Japan: A Double-Edged Sword-Super-Aged, Poorly Funded -- Poland: Farewell Redistribution, Hello Funded Defined Contribution -- Sweden: Transforming Corporatism and Remodeling Labor Market Policies -- Comparing Health Care, Education, and Social Services across Nations -- 13. A Vision for Comparative Theory and Practice: Horizons of the Comparative Voyage -- Comparison in Motion: Divergence and Convergence across Time and States -- The Comparative Approach in Service of Interconnectedness, Emulation, and Policy Transfer -- Comparative Public Administration and Governance: Between Transfer and Diffusion -- Horizons for Comparative Public Administration and Governance -- Summary and Final Remarks -- Appendix One: Structural Similarities-Cultural Differences: The Need for and Development of Comparative Government Studies -- The Function of Comparison in Society and in the Social Sciences -- The Importance of Comparison in the Study of Public Administration -- Geographical Fragmentation of Comparative Research and Understanding.

Substantive Fragmentation of Comparative Research and Understanding.