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1. The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

   A Quest for Control

   Edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy

   This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and...

   Published May 5th 2004 by Routledge
2. Reward for High Public Office

   Asian and Pacific Rim States

   Edited by Christopher Hood, B. Guy Peters

   Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

   The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and...

   Published December 11th 2002 by Routledge
3. Politics of Bureaucracy

   5th Edition

   By B. Guy Peters, Guy Peters

   Published May 2nd 2002 by Routledge
4. Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform

   Edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   Adminstrative reform in most western democracies over the past couple of decades has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors - experts on administrative...

   Published May 2nd 2001 by Routledge