International handbook on civil service systems
While there is no universally accepted definition of civil servant and civil service, this authoritative and informative Handbook compares and contrasts various approaches to organising the structure and activities of different civil service systems
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Cheltenham, UK :
Edward Elgar ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Civil service systems : introduction and scope of the book
- 2. The Weberian legacy
- 3. Contrasting Anglo-American and continental European civil service systems
- 4. Decentralization, devolution and the hollowing out of the state
- 5. Experiments with joined-up, horizontal and whole-of-government in Anglophone countries
- 6. The civil service in Italy
- 7. The United States civil service
- 8. A splendid ruined reform : the creation and destruction of a civil service in Argentina
- 9. Comparative perspectives of the challenges and prospects of civil service reforms in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- 10. The public service of India : a mapping expedition
- 11. Towards public service-oriented governance? administrative reform with 'Chinese characteristics'
- 12. Japanese public administration at the crossroads : declining trust in government and civil service reform in the age of fiscal retrenchment
- 13. The Australian public service system
- 14. The civil service in France : contested complacency?
- 15. The United Kingdom civil service : a devolving system