What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other
kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do
they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from it?
Does a theory of administrative reform exist? A survey of published
research on administrative reform reveals that satisfactory answers
to these questions are handicapped by methodological and
theoretical shortcomings. There are no common definitions, no
agreement over content, no selected boundaries, no clear links with
the wide phenomenon of social reform, no firm hypothesis tested by
empirical findings, and no continuous dialogue between
practitioners and theorists. This book is the first comprehensive
and systematic treatment of the subject for professionals and
students in the fields of public and private administration. It
carefully examines the diverse interdisciplinary literature on the
subject and identifies and develops the most promising approaches
towards a unified theory. Caiden shows how the study of
administrative reform can contribute substantially to the
development of administrative theory, and constructs a working
definition of the phenomenon of administrative reform,
distinguishing it from social change and from administrative
change. The practical use of this definition is tested by the
analysis of various case histories of administrative cultures of
different periods in history, from which a common cycle of reform
processes is discerned. The author follows with a detailed
examination of the processes themselves. The book concludes with a
discussion of the obstacles to reform and a review of the author's
findings and conclusions.
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