000			01496pab a2200169 454500
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100			_aRiggs, Fred W.
245			_aPublic administration in America: why our uniqueness is exceptional and important
260			_c1998
300			_ap.22-31
362			_aJan-Feb
520			_aThis semi-autobiographical account of the author's experience with the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) Comparative Administration Group during the 1960s, and the subsequent evolution of his thinking, sheds light on the status and history of comparative public administration in America. In retrospect, instead of trying to export administrative practices that were not really appropriate in many countries of the post-imperial age, both scholars and practitioners would have done better abroad if they had paid more attention to the analysis of public administration in America, as viewed in a comparative perspective. Had they been able to do that, and if they had also learned more about the constraints and dynamics of politics and administration in the new successor states of the world, they could have been more successful overseas and, at the same time, they would have enhanced the ability of American scholars and practitioners to understand their own system of government. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration - United States
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aPublic Administration Review
909			_a36810
999			_c36810 _d36810