Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

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

• Department of Political Science, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA

  Keith M. Henderson

• Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada

  O. P. Dwivedi

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

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