Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of civil service education and training
- Analyses the situation in countries across Europe, as well as the US and Australia
- Shows how public service is influenced by social, political, and economic changes and challenges
Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)
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"Recent international and national attempts to eliminate corruption by enforcing compliance and by establishing frameworks, regulations and ‘toolkits’ have largely failed. Instead, we need to examine the mentality of the honest, diligent public servant and to understand how this has developed over the modern period and how it can best be nurtured and encouraged. This superb new collection is a massive step forward in explaining how some societies have built effective strategies for training and supporting those charged with ensuring the widest possible benefit in the implementation of policy and why others are still distorted by privilege, dogma and powerful vested interests. As the limitations of the ‘New Public Management’ and populist politics are becoming increasingly clear, it is in comparative studies such as these that we can assess the means whereby the public service ethos can be revived and sustained in the political cultures of individual post-industrial societies to improve standards of governance. This text should be required reading for all those entering public service and for all those charged with recruiting, mentoring and cultivating the common good."
— Ian Cawood, Stirling University, UK
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Denis Moschopoulos is Professor at the Ionian University of Corfu in Greece, where he holds the chair of the institutional and administrative history of the Greek state. His publications concern the institutional development of the Greek state and the historical evolution of its public administration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Education and Training of Public Servants
Book Subtitle: Systems and Practices from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Editors: Toon Kerkhoff, Denis Moschopoulos
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37645-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37644-3Published: 03 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37647-4Due: 05 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37645-0Published: 02 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 395
Topics: Public Administration, Public Policy, Governance and Government, Governance and Government