The Modern State and Its Study
Subtitle: New Administrative Sciences in a Changing Europe and United States
Contributors: Richard Joseph Stillman (Editor); Walter J. M. Kickert (Editor)
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781840641387
Subjects: Central government; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Modern State; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Public Affairs & Administration; Public Policy - General; Administrative agencies; Europe; Management; Politics and government; Public administration; United States
Description: "What is the relationship between changes in modern states and the current practice of public administration, on the one hand, and recent developments in the sciences of administration on the other? The contributors to this unique book address this fundamental question by surveying the origins, evolution and the contemporary state-of-the-art of administrative sciences in Europe and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.