Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

By: K. Henderson (Editor), O. Dwivedi (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 August 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Bureaucracy is a term used both to characterise a particular type of organisational structure (centralised, hierarchic, specialised) and to criticise it (slow, inefficient, cumbersome). The theme of this book is bureaucracy and the alternatives to it in the developing world. The central focus is government bureaucracy (more kindly labelled Public Administrationi) and a full range of options to the status quo, many of them outside the realm of the conventional. The purpose of the book is to extend the concern with bureaucratic reform, based only on New Public Management, World Bank/International Monetary Fund and other Northern thinking which stresses private-sector models, to a fuller range of ideas and practices. Toward that end, grassroots movements and non-governmental organizations, Islamic revivalism, feminist administration, ecological administration, Liberation Theology and other models of administration are discussed.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Structure & Processes Central Government Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Development Studies Public Administration International Relations Economics Political Economy

List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Notes on the Contributors
Perspectives on Development Administration
Development Administration: An Overview	p. 3
Alternative Administration: Human-Needs-Centred and Sustainable	p. 25
A Third-Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives	p. 52
Inclusive Administration and Development: Feminist Critiques of Bureaucracy	p. 69
Ecological Principles, Emerging Organisational Forms and Postmodernism	p. 95
Regional Studies
Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in East and Southeast Asia	p. 129
Governance and Administration in South Asia	p. 160
Redynamising the African Civil Service for the Twenty-first Century: Prospects for a Non-bureaucratic Structure	p. 190
Alternative Administration: A Southern African Perspective	p. 217
Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in the Middle East	p. 244
Development Administration and its Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean: Reforms and Redirection	p. 269
Future Directions
What Lies Ahead for the Administrative State?	p. 295
Index	p. 321
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