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Comparative Studies in Public Administration: Intellectual Challenges and Alternative Perspectives
Author(s) -
Haque M. Shamsul,
Wal Zeger,
Berg Caspar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.13349
Subject(s) - globalization , administration (probate law) , remedial education , political science , public administration , field (mathematics) , affect (linguistics) , state (computer science) , sociology , law , mathematics , communication , algorithm , computer science , pure mathematics
In the current age of globalization, there is a greater need for comparative studies in public administration to explore cross‐national variations in adopting new global models. Many of the major challenges impeding the intellectual promises of earlier waves of comparative administration continue to affect the contemporary state of the field. As a part of the PAR Symposium on Comparative Public Administration, this short article explores the ideational, epistemological, structural, and institutional challenges to comparative administration and briefly suggests some remedial alternatives .