Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

  • Keith M. Henderson
  • O. P. Dwivedi
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Part of the International Political Economy Series book series (IPES)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Perspectives on Development Administration

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Development Administration: An Overview
      O. P. Dwivedi
      Pages 3-24
    3. Alternative Administration: Human-Needs-Centred and Sustainable
      O. P. Dwivedi, Keith M. Henderson
      Pages 25-51
    4. A Third-Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives
      Keith M. Henderson
      Pages 52-68
    5. Inclusive Administration and Development: Feminist Critiques of Bureaucracy
      Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
      Pages 69-94
    6. Ecological Principles, Emerging Organisational Forms and Postmodernism
      Jean Mercier
      Pages 95-126

  3. Regional Studies

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 127-127
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    2. Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in East and Southeast Asia
      Mark Turner, John Halligan
      Pages 129-159
    3. Governance and Administration in South Asia
      O. P. Dwivedi
      Pages 160-189
    4. Redynamising the African Civil Service for the Twenty-first Century: Prospects for a Non-bureaucratic Structure
      M. Jide Balogun, Gelase Mutahaba
      Pages 190-216
    5. Alternative Administration: A Southern African Perspective
      Victor G. Hilliard, Henry F. Wissink
      Pages 217-243
    6. Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in the Middle East
      Ali Farazmand
      Pages 244-268
    7. Development Administration and its Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reforms and Redirection
      Carl E. Meacham
      Pages 269-291

  4. Future Directions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 293-293
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    2. What Lies Ahead for the Administrative State?
      Gerald E. Caiden
      Pages 295-320
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 321-330
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About this book

Introduction

This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.

Keywords

bureaucracy development Governance grassroots Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) organization postmodernism reform service state Third World

Editors and affiliations

  • Keith M. Henderson
    • 1
  • O. P. Dwivedi
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Political ScienceState University of New York College at BuffaloUSA
  2. 2.Department of Political ScienceUniversity of GuelphCanada

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333983355
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-40735-4
  • Online ISBN 978-0-333-98335-5
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