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Summary
This multiauthor reference handbook gives a detailed, objective picture of the evolution, structure, and processes of public administration in representative Third World countries. Written by an international group of specialists with first-hand knowledge of the subject, it presents empirical studies of developing nations in Asia, the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, the West Indies, and Latin America. The resulting data are shaped by the editor into a theoretical framework delineating the complex relationships of state, bureaucracy, and class in the Third World.
Subramaniam's introduction provides a critical overview of development literature in the field. Each case study begins with an historical introduction and discusses the political, executive, and the administrative structures and processes. Among the specific topics covered are public enterprises, administrative departments, personnel, financial administration, and regional and local administrative units. The majority of the systems studied are affected by the unregulated power of public enterprises, the persistence of colonial legacies, and the elitism of the bureaucracy. The concluding section relates these common elements to the sociohistorical characteristics of the middle-class groups that dominate both politics and public administration. Offering new research findings and a useful theoretical synthesis, this study will promote a clearer understanding of the internal political processes of Third World nations and be of compelling interest to specialists and students concerned with Third World political economy, comparative government, and international political economy.
Author Notes
V. SUBRAMANIAM is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of ten books including Cultural Integration of India: A Socio-Historical Analysis (1983) and Transplanted Indo-British Administration (1977). He has taught in universities in all five continents, has researched and taught in several Afro-Asian countries and has trained their administrators as well. In addition, Dr. Subramaniam has held several distinguished appointments such as the Simon Senior Fellowship at Manchester University as well as visiting appointments at Heidelberg, Leningrad, and several other universities.
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The search for common themes in Third World public administration is this volume's organizing principle. The contributors start with a thoughtful review of the literature. The main part of the volume consists of case studies of the evolution, structures, and processes of public administration in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Latin America, and the English-speaking Caribbean. Scholars who investigated their own countries present well-documented and well-written case studies that vary substantially from descriptions of structures to analyses of the interaction of society, politics, and the administrative apparatus. The book concludes with a chapter on common themes of Third World public administration, a good bibliographical guide, and an appendix by the editor on the derivative middle class, which he believes should be the unifying concept in the comparative study of Third World public administration. Although this hypothesis is interesting, the variety of phenomena described in the cases suggests that no single concept can serve this integrative function. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -S. E. C. Hintz, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh
Table of Contents
| IntroductionV. Subramaniam |
| Asia BangladeshSyed Giasuddin |
| Ahmed and Mohammad Mohabbat Khan IndiaS.R. Maheshwari |
| PakistanNasir Islam |
| The PhilippinesLedivina V. Carino |
| The Middle East and North Africa EgyptE.H. Valsan |
| IranAli Farazmand |
| Saudi ArabiaAyman Al-Yassini |
| TurkeyMetin Heper |
| Sub-Saharan Africa GhanaE. Gyimah-Boadi and Donald Rothchild |
| NigeriaLadipo Adamolekun and Victor Ayeni |
| ZambiaChibwe Chibaye and J. M. Bwalya |
| The West Indies and Latin America |
| The English-Speaking CaribbeanGladstone Mills Latin America |
| The Southern ConeJorge Nef |
| ConclusionsV. Subramaniam |
| Appendix: The Derivative Middle ClassV. Subramaniam |
| Bibliographical Guide |
| Name Index |
| Subject Index |
