Description
Examines the status of public administration in nine profiled countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, and Turkey. Contributes to the field's understanding of public administration as a concept, including the diversity of guiding general principles that determines how governments administer the affairs of state in the context of their governance frameworks, and as praxis, including the diversity of public administration structures, procedures, and reform initiatives. Explores the ways in which each country profiled has adopted (or failed to adopt) a mode of public administration and governance that mirrors its history, and its cultural, geo-political, socio-economic, and conflictive environments.

Provides students and scholars with an understanding of the ways in which technological change, knowledge accumulation, and diffusion can increase a state's effective governance capacity.