| | | List of Tables and Figures | | |
| | | Notes on Contributors | | |
| Part I | | Introduction | | |
| 1 | | The Analysis of Administrative Traditions by B. Guy Peters | | 3 |
| | | How can we understand the lagacy of the past? | | 4 |
| | | What variables can define the traditions? | | 6 |
| | | Traditions and change | | 8 |
| | | Four reasons for analyzing administrative traditions | | 10 |
| | | Outline of the book | | 13 |
| Part II | | Empirical Analysis of Administrative Traditions | | |
| 2 | | Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective: Families, Groups and Hybrids by B. Guy Peters | | 19 |
| | | Anglo-American | | 20 |
| | | Napoleonic | | 21 |
| | | Germanic | | 22 |
| | | The Scandinavian tradition | | 23 |
| | | Latin America | | 23 |
| | | Postcolonial South Asia and Africa | | 24 |
| | | East Asian | | 25 |
| | | Soviet | | 27 |
| | | Islamicist | | 28 |
| | | Conclusions | | 30 |
| 3 | | Checks and Balance in Chinas Administrative Traditions: A Preliminary Assessment by Anthony B.L. Cheung | | 31 |
| | | Evolution of the traditional Chinese administrative system | | 32 |
| | | Notions of ?organizing government in imperial China | | 38 |
| | | The administrative legacy and its implications | | 40 |
| | | Concluding remarks | | 42 |
| 4 | | Administrative Tradition in India: Issues of Convergence, Persistence, Divergence and Challenges by D.S. Mishra | | 44 |
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