Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration

Mapping the multi-dimensional relationships between the people, local and national governments, international organizations, global corporations, natural resources, and the world market, this encyclopedic volume is both a primer and a guide for researchers, academics, and policy-makers both public and private. Using country-specific cases, the essays examine globalization as a threat to national sovereignty, the environment, and public health, and as a contributor to increasing worldwide inequality and global insecurity.

Globalization transcends borders and cultures as it develops both from the natural flow of information and communication technologies and as a directed and driven quest for global hegemony by self-serving corporations and world political heavyweights. It bears a multifaceted web of influence that manifests in inequalities in growth, prosperity, and accountability in varying social, cultural, and economic contexts.The Handbook of Globalization, Governance, and Public Administration is the first comprehensive resource that untangles this complex knot of issues. Mapping the multi-layered relationships among the individuals, local and national governments, international organizations, global corporations, natural resources and the world market, this encyclopedic volume is both a primer and a guide for researchers, academics, and policymakers both public and private. The book demonstrates in broad terms how globalization presents new threats to national sovereignty, the environment and public health, tends to increase worldwide inequality, and produces global insecurity. Using country-specific cases, the essays examine the role of bureaucracy and market orientation in Hong Kong and China, the new position of public-private partnerships in Africa as protectors instead of exploiters of the people, a Russian implementation of incentive systems to maintain local growth, and the fruitless corruption of a land development scheme in India. Ethics and the need for future global consciousness is illustrated by energy policy, which pits consumers and business interests against local communities and is moderated only by supranational organizations. The solution calls for sustainable development to be grounded in community-based institutions while governments seek growth through market expansion worldwide. Concerns for public health, climate change, and sustainable energy are growing in the global village and understanding the multi-dimensional chess game is key to survival.

SECTION I: CONCEPTS, MEANINGS, AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESGlobalization: A Theoretical Analysis with Implications forGovernance and Public AdministrationCultural GlobalizationPlanning for Change: Globalization and American PublicAdministrationSECTION II: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONThe Challenge of Globalization to Public Administration Identity Globalization and Its Impact on Strategic Security Nation-Building: An Appraisal Globalization and the Regulation of Professions Globalization and Media Coverage of Public Administration The Etiology of Transnational Health Security in the Age ofGlobalizationGlobalization and Public Administration Education: A Process of Mutual Transformation in the Former Soviet Union andCentral and Eastern Europe SECTION III: CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS FORGOVERNANCEGlobalization and Information and CommunicationsTechnology Influences on Democratic Governance Regional Integration, Regionalism and Public Administration:Bridging the Global-National Divide in Decision Making andPolicy Implementation Globalization and Governance: Explaining Success and FailureGlobal Governance, the UN Secretariat, and International PublicAdministration: An Essay Global Governance and National Governance: How MutuallyExclusiveGood Governance: Its Theory and Practice in IndiaGlobalization and Governance in the Former East Germany:The European Union Factor SECTION IV: GLOBALIZATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND REORGANIZATIONGlobal Administrative Reforms and Transformation ofGovernance and Public Administration Globalization of Administrative Reforms: The Dilemmas of Combining Political Control and Increased InstitutionalAutonomy Globalization, Regulatory Regimes, and AdministrativeModernization in Developing Nations: Toward a TheoreticalFrameworkPromising the Future or Just Empty Promises? The Paradoxes and Perils of Human Resource Management Reform in a Global Context Deconstructing the Nation-State Bureaucracies:Supranationalization and Regionalization as Polarizing Forces in the New EuropeSECTION V: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM AND REORGANIZATION IN ASIA-PACIFICAdapting Asia and the Asia-Pacific Public Administration to aGlobalizing World: Some Lessons from Experience Recent Major Administrative Reforms: Japan's Response to Global and Domestic ChallengesAdministrative Reforms in China: Globalization or Localization? Globalization, Bureaucracy, and Administrative Reformin Hong KongChinese Administrative Reform: A Genie in a Bottle Privatization in Africa: The Case of Botswana Globalization and Administrative Reforms: A Case Study of aGlobalizing City (Gurgaon) in IndiaThe Effect of the African Growth and Opportunity Act on the Textile and Apparel Industry in South AfricaNature of Decentralized Governance in Africa: Obstacles andMeasures for Strengthening Decentralization for Good GovernanceGood Governance: A Model for India Transnational Corporations, Development, andUnderdevelopmentNew Views on North-South Relations of Imperialism Assessing Sustainable Development Administration:A Framework and Implications for Organizational StructureInternational Development Management: Definitions, Debates, and DilemmasThe World Bank and Postconflict Reconstruction The Effects of Governance on Competitiveness in India, China, and Mexico The Globalization of Public Administration: Rhetoric, Reality, and Reason in GhanaSECTION VI: GLOBALIZATION: ISSUES IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENTNew Public Management: Theory, Ideology, and Practice Global Ethics in the 21st Century: An Alternative Approach Subnational Governments and Globalization: The Changing Face of Federalism Globalization and EnergyGlobalization within Countries in Conflict: The Energy Company CaseCompetitive Advantage and Market Organizations in the21st Century: Market Driving or Market DrivenRevenues and Expenditures in Russian Oblasts: The Changing Role of Financing State and Local Public ServicesThe Earth Charter: Toward a New Global Environmental Ethic Globalization: The Changing Nature of Education andTraining for Administration of Government Global Health and Human Rights: Challenges for PublicHealth Administrators in an Era of Interdependence and MobilityThe Globalization of Public Budgeting in the United StatesGlobal Climatic Stabilization: Challenges for Public Administration in China and the United States World Crisis in Public Service and Administration