Tradition and Public Administration

Contemporary administrative reforms push administrative systems to homogenize. This book documents, however, the persistence of administrative traditions in a number of countries that tend to maintain existing administrative patterns and reduce the impact of pressures for reform.

Martin Painter is Chair Professor of Public Administration at City University of Hong Kong. He is currently researching regulatory reform in East and Southeast Asia, autonomy and control in Hong Kong government bodies and adoption of Western models of public management in China and Vietnam. Recent publications include Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Tradition and Transformation in the Thai Bureaucracy, Critique Internationale and Administrative Reform in China's Central Government - How Much `Learning from the West'? International Review of Administrative Science.
B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Governance at Zeppelin University, Germany. He has published extensively on comparative public policy and comparative public administration.