Comparative Studies in Public Administration: Intellectual Challenges and Alternative Perspectives

In the current age of globalization, there is a greater need for comparative studies in public administration to explore cross‐national variations in adopting new global models. Many of the major challenges impeding the intellectual promises of earlier waves of comparative administration continue to...

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Published inPublic administration review Vol. 81; no. 2; pp. 344 - 348
Main Authors Haque, M. Shamsul, Wal, Zeger, Berg, Caspar
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, USA Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.03.2021
American Society for Public Administration
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Comparative studies
Globalization
Public administration
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Summary:In the current age of globalization, there is a greater need for comparative studies in public administration to explore cross‐national variations in adopting new global models. Many of the major challenges impeding the intellectual promises of earlier waves of comparative administration continue to affect the contemporary state of the field. As a part of the PAR Symposium on Comparative Public Administration, this short article explores the ideational, epistemological, structural, and institutional challenges to comparative administration and briefly suggests some remedial alternatives.
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.1111/puar.13349