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Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Keith M. Henderson

    1. Department of Political Science, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA

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  2. O. P. Dwivedi

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada

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Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Perspectives on Development Administration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Development Administration: An Overview

      • O. P. Dwivedi
      Pages 3-24

    3. Alternative Administration: Human-Needs-Centred and Sustainable

      • O. P. Dwivedi, Keith M. Henderson
      Pages 25-51

    4. A Third-Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives

      • Keith M. Henderson
      Pages 52-68

    5. Inclusive Administration and Development: Feminist Critiques of Bureaucracy

      • Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay
      Pages 69-94

    6. Ecological Principles, Emerging Organisational Forms and Postmodernism

      • Jean Mercier
      Pages 95-126

  4. Future Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. What Lies Ahead for the Administrative State?

      • Gerald E. Caiden
      Pages 295-320

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 321-330
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This volume seeks to explore bureaucratic forms of administration in the Third World and alternatives to them. Experts with wide experience in development are assembled to deal with issues of reform, indigenization, and desirable futures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA

    Keith M. Henderson

  • Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Canada

    O. P. Dwivedi

About the editors

Tim Shaw is Research Professor and Graduate Program Director in Global Governance and Human Security at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA and Emeritus Professor at the University of London, UK. He has an extraordinary record, both as a scholar and administrator, most recently as Professor and Director at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine in Trinidad; Associate Research Fellow at UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies in Bruges and Senior Fellow at Centre for International Governance Innovation at the University of Waterloo. He has edited the International Political Economy series for Palgrave Macmillan for more than 30 years.

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