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100			_aJreisat, Jamil
245			_aComparative public administration and Africa
260			_c2010
300			_ap.612-631.
362			_aDec
520			_aThe objectives of this article are to (1) define the contributions of the Comparative Public Administration to knowledge of governance, management of public services, and national development; (2) assess the relevance of these contributions to the African experience; (3) examine how comparative research, despite certain limitations, had steered public administration ot of its ethnocentric and provincial mode of analysis into a wider global horizon of search and discovery; and (4) examine the relevance of development administration concepts to practice in Africa, particularly during the formative phase of post-colonial experience. The article offers suggestions for change strategies. - Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration - Africa
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
908			_aN
909			_a90510
999			_c90510 _d90510