Serving the State: Global Public Administration Education and Training the Anglo‐American Tradition

Citation

Davies, M.R., Greenwood, J., Robins, L. and Walkley, N. (1999), "Serving the State: Global Public Administration Education and Training the Anglo‐American Tradition", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 23 No. 7, pp. 2-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/jeit.1999.23.7.2.2

This book, in the Policy Studies Organization Series, explores global trends in public administration education and training. Recent decades have seen global changes in the administrative environment and the pattern of service delivery. The impact of information technology, New Public Management, privatization, deregulation and liberalization has been felt throughout the world. At the same time, new supranational and international organizations have emerged, as have new social movements such as feminism and environmentalism. But such changes have influenced different societies in different ways. Reinventing government has, perforce, required the reinvention of administration. This, in turn, has demanded a reappraisal of the ways in which administrators are prepared for office. From curriculum design and teaching methodologies to learning styles and assessment practices, change and Ñdiversity have been much in evidence.

This volume focuses on the Anglo‐American tradition with its public service ethos and liberal democratic roots. Each of its chapters has been researched by an in‐country specialist. They cover public administration education and training in Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK and the USA.