Comparative Studies in Public Administration: Intellectual Challenges and Alternative Perspectives

Public Administration Review, vol. 81, pp. 344–348

Abstract

Abstract In the current age of globalization, there is a greater need for comparative studies in public administration to explore cross‐national variations in adopting new global models. Many of the major challenges impeding the intellectual promises of earlier waves of comparative administration continue to affect the contemporary state of the field. As a part of the PAR Symposium on Comparative Public Administration, this short article explores the ideational, epistemological, structural, and institutional challenges to comparative administration and briefly suggests some remedial alternatives.

Authors 3

1. M. Shamsul Haque corresponding

   National University of Singapore

   Affiliation as printed

   National University of Singapore

2. Zeger van der Wal Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University

3. Caspar F. van den Berg

   University of Groningen

   Affiliation as printed

   University of Groningen