INTERNET RESOURCES FOR COMPARATIVE
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
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GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS
Accel-Team.com -- scholarly
articles and classroom handouts on management topics
American Society for Public Administration
-- the premiere organization in its field
Approaches to Organizational Theory
-- a scholarly article on the subject
Comparative Criminal
Justice Resources on France -- from Prof. Dreveskracht's website (main
page)
Postmodern
Organizational Theory -- everything about postmodern organizational science
Prof. Charles Dreveskracht's Comparative
CJ
Resources -- links for six developed countries
Prof. Fred Riggs Home
Page -- inventor of the prismatic model in Comparative PM
Prof. Harry Schweizer's Global
Criminal Justice Links -- especially strong in the area of corruption
Prof. Phil Reichel's CJ Ed Website --
materials for his comparative justice systems book
Prof. Rbt. Dahl's
home page -- the undisputed "Dean" of political science
Prof. Rbt. Winslow's
Comparative Criminological Tour of the World -- interesting facts about
countries
Public Administration and Management -- an
online journal
Public Governance Indicators Literature Review (pdf) -- covers
public-private interface issues
UN Millennium
Development Goals -- eight things the world must do by 2015
Wikipedia Entry on
Bureaucracy -- a short, but concise encyclopedia entry
Wikipedia Entry on Democracy
-- an interesting, graphical encyclopedia entry
Wikipedia
Entry on International Development -- explains capacity-building and other
terms
Wikipedia Entry on Mixed Member Proportional Representation -- explains
electoral systems
Wikipedia Entry
on NPM -- a somewhat incomplete essay on New Public Management
Wikipedia Entry
for Organizational Studies -- a pretty good overview of this scholarly field
Wikipedia Entry on Public Administration as a Discipline -- an amazingly
broad overview
Wikipedia Entry on
Sustainability -- a very well done and complete Wikipedia entry
Wikipedia List of Countries by System of Government -- a mega-list, with
graphics
Wikipedia List of Modern
Monarchies -- another mega-list
Wikipedia Portal on
Forms of Government -- you know it's big because it's called a portal
World Bank -- the definitive website for
indicators about government efficiency worldwide
World Factbook of
Criminal Justice Systems -- Justice Dept. analysis of what other countries
do
World Values Survey -- Prof.
Inglehart's map of values and happiness around the world
SPECIFIC LINKS USED IN ONLINE LECTURES
Lecture #1: Introduction to Comparative Public Administration
Prussia
Cameralism
Mercantilism
von
Justi
New Public
Management
Chicago school
of economics
Austrian school of
economics
USA.gov
archive of the NPR
website
Hammer Awards
Office of Management and Budget
Hoover Commission
Procurement
Governance
Good governance
Center for Digital
Government
Citizens Against Government Waste
Fred Riggs article
on The Study and Practice of Public Administration
GovernanceFocus Blog
Government Technology Magazine
History
of Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government
Institute on Governance
Joined-Up
Government in the UK: Theory and Reality
What is Austrian Economics?
(The von Mises Institute)
What is Good Governance?
Worldwide Governance Indicators from the
World Bank
Lecture #1a: Comparative Criminal Justice
Historiography
Holism
The Lumpers and
Splitters problem in science
ASC Division of
International Criminology
BJS International Justice Statistics
Comparative Criminal Justice chapter of Handbook of CJ Administration
International Center for Criminal Law Reform
International Center for the Prevention of Crime
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law
Michigan State's List of International Criminal Justice Sites
NCJRS International Resources
Office of International Criminal Justice
Prof. Greek's Comparative Criminal Justice Resources
Prof. Round's Textbook Companion Website
Transnational Crime and Corruption Center
United Nations Crime and Justice Network
United Nations Interregional Crime Institute
United Nations Surveys of Criminal Justice Operations
World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
Lecture 1b: Comparative Homeland Security
2007
Europol report on Annual Cases of Terrorism
UK Terrorism Act of
2000
July 7, 2005
London bombing
July 21,
2005 London bombing
Home
Office CT Strategy page
Wikipedia Entry on Home
Office
Crime Prevention
Effects of CCTV
October and November 2005
French Civil Unrest
Wikipedia Entry on Vigipirate
Wikipedia Entry on
Separation Barriers
Israeli Defense Emergency Regulations of 1945
Russian criminal code on Terrorism
A Comparative Analysis of
Domestic Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism
Practices in 10 Western Democracies (pdf)
Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads (pdf)
GAO Report on How Five
Countries are Organized to Combat Terrorism (pdf)
GlobalSecurity.org
Homeland Security and
the Russian Approach (pdf)
How the French Fight Terror
Israel's Hard-Learned Lessons
Fighting Terrorism
RAND Report on Confronting
the Enemy Within
Russian Views on
National Security (pdf)
Terrorisme.net
World Intelligence and
Security Agencies
Prof. Matt Deflem's website
online version of How MI-5
Would Apply to the U.S.
Lecture 2: Theories of Bureaucracy
OpenSecrets.org
Iron triangle theory
A List of all Lobbyist
Groups in the U.S.
A List of all Lobbyist Groups in the
World
How the World Works: Bureaucracy
James Q.
Wilson on Bureaucracy
Legal Times Blog for Lobbyists
Lobbyists.info Magazine for Lobbyists
Mises versus Weber
on Bureaucracy (pdf)
Principal-Agent Theory in
Comparative Politics
Principal-Agent Theory in Emergency Management
Prof. Fred
Riggs Home Page
Selections from Max
Weber's Theory of Social and Economic Organization
The Marxist Critique
of Bureaucracy
Trends in 20th Century
Government Ethics
Wikipedia
Entry on Frederick Winslow Taylor
Lecture 2a. Structural-Functional Classification of Political Systems
(secure)
Gabriel Almond
Alaouite dynasty
House of Saud
Hashemite clan
Sultan Qaboos bin
Said
Dragon
King
Grimaldi family
velayat-e faqih
Qods Force
Swiss Guard
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Burma
Elections
Separation of powers
Separation
of church and state
Human rights
Freedom of expression
Equality before the law
Cabinet government
Are Non-Theocratic Regimes
Possible? (pdf)
Military Regimes
of South America
Monarchies Abolished in
the Twentieth Century
On Structural
Functionalism by Scott London
Presidentialism versus
Parliamentarism
The
Difference between Theocracy and Ecclesiocracy
The Origins and
Politics of Semi-Presidentialism (pdf)
Types of
Governments
U.S. State
Department Definition of Democracy
Wikipedia Entry
on Structural-Functionalism
Lecture 3: Foundations of Organizational Theory
About.com Management Guide
Accel Team's
Productivity Articles
Fiedler's Contingency Theory of Leadership
Gallery of
Famous Management People
Lawrence and Lorsch's Contingency Theory
Open and Closed Societies and Organizations (pdf)
Principia Cybernetica Web
Systems Thinking
The Best of Public Administration on the Net
Vroom's Expectancy
Theory of Motivation
Whole Systems Megasite
Wikipedia Entry
for Managerial Grid
Lecture 3a: Human Relations Management
Accel Team Notes on Chris Argyris and Others
Gallery of Famous
Management People
Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership
Hawthorne, Pygmalion, and
Placebo Effects
Hawthorne
Experiments and Findings
Human
Relations Approaches to Motivation
Mary Parker Follett: Visionary Genius
Onepine Info on Elton Mayo and
Others
W. Edwards Deming Institute
Wikipedia Entry on Six Sigma
Lecture 4: The Management Styles of Europe
hoi polloi
General LaFayette
Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of the Citizen
Basic Law of 1949
Cardiff School of European Studies Research Unit
Discerning the Key Characteristics of a European Management Style
Etymology of the word
"Chancellor"
Facts About
Germany
Fred Riggs Article on American
Exceptionalism
Free Online Edition
of Politics in Germany by Russell Dalton
Wikipedia Entry
for Politics of Germany
Lecture 4a: Oligarchies and Polyarchies
List of Modern Monarchies
Dystopia
A Beginner's Guide to
Technocracy
Singapore as Meritocracy
Iran's Supreme Leader's website and
e-office
Abdolkarim Soroush's Website
Beyond
Intractability List of Articles and Essays
CFR
Article on Mullahs versus Ministers
Defining Democracy
Greg Giles' Article on Iranian Power Structure (pdf)
Reading Khamenei: Iran's Most Powerful Leader (pdf)
Technocracy, Inc.
The Communication Initiative Network
The End of the End of History: Why the 21st Century will look like the 19th
Wikipedia Entry on
Pillarisation in the Netherlands
Lecture 5: Civic Culture
Civil religion
Civic virtue
Supply-side economics,
Reaganomics,
and Thatcherism
Bigger is Not Better (pdf)
wikigovernment and
e-Government
Abahlali
baseMjondolo
small business
incubators
The Ombudsman office
Center for Civic Engagement
Center for Democracy and
Citizenship
Center for Information & Research on Civic
Learning & Engagement
Character Education and Civic Engagement
Civic Engagement Center
CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen
Participation
CIVITAS: For Responsible Citizenship
Definitions of
Social Capital
Digital Government for Developing
Countries
e-Gov Around the World
e-Gov Monitor
Gabriel Almond: The Civic
Culture Concept (pdf)
Global Service Institute Network
Journal for Civic
Commitment
PACT: Strengthening Civil Society
Secularization Theory: The Course of a Concept
Social Capital Gateway
The Civic
and Political Health of a Nation
The Secularization Debate (pdf)
ThirdWorldTraveler.com
Wikipedia Entry on Civil
Society
World Values Survey
Lecture 5a: Characteristics of Modernization
GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Consumer Price Index
(CPI)
The
Justinian Code
The electoral
college system
Mixed Member Proportional Representation
Social
Security
Fair tax advocacy groups and
fair tax blogs
A Scientific Reexamination of Modernization (pdf)
British Health and
Welfare Systems
Forbes List: Billionaires
Internal Revenue Website: Understanding Taxes
Kennedy School of Government
Innovators Network
Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development
Society as a Complex,
Adaptive System
Table: Why a Sales Tax is
Regressive
Understanding Kenya's Politics
What is Productivity? (pdf)
Wikipedia Portal on
Public Finance
Wikipedia Portal on Taxation
Lecture 6: Regimes, Elites, and Political Parties
Coalition government
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Nawaz Sharif
Pervez Musharraf
Government of India Act of 1935 (PDF)
Afghanistan's Political Parties (1902-2006)
CFR Backgrounder on Pakistan's Constitution
How the Jirga
Works
Wikipedia List of Political Parties in Afghanistan
Wikipedia List of Political Parties in Pakistan
Lecture 6a: Patterns of Sustainable Development
Marshall Plan
Alliance
for Progress
Peace Corps
The White Man's
Burden
G8 summits
Harrod-Domar growth model
Solow growth
model
80% of all disabled
people live in developing countries
Structural
adjustment loans
Washington Consensus
New
institutionalism
USAID
PDD 56 for
Complex Contingency Operations
U.S. State Department's blog, Dipnote
Defense is
from Mars, State is from Venus
www.worldbank.org
www.imf.org
UNDP
UNDG
Brundtland
Report
ISO standards
Asian Tigers
A Syllabus for a Course in Development Studies (pdf)
Appropedia Wiki on Sustainable Development
Center for Global Development
Development Studies Association
Development Studies Network
Institute of Development Studies
Progress in Development (online journal)
Queen's Univ. Dept. of Global Development
Studies
Norwegian Univ. Dept. of
Environment/Development Studies
The Nature of Development Studies (pdf)
The
Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development
Triple
Bottom Line: A Business Metaphor for a Social Construct (pdf)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
USAID Center
for Democracy and Good Governance
U.S. State Department Office of
Reconstruction and Stabilization
Univ. of Birmingham's International
Development Dept.
Univ. of Cambridge Dept. of
Development Studies
Univ. of E. Anglia Dept.
of Development Studies
Univ. of
Ghana School of Development Studies
Univ. of
London's Dept. of Development Studies
Univ. of Oxford's Dept. of Development
Studies
World Bank Report on the Wealth of Nations (pdf)
World Institute for Development Economics
Research
author's website for Ecological Economics
sample
chapter of Modernization as Ideology
Lecture 7: Economic Security and International Political Economy
(secure)
The Growth fetish
Poverty
and 90% of the world's disease burden
Poverty and Loss of
Life Expectancy
Poverty as
number one killer of children
Make Poverty
History
Global Call to Action against Poverty
solidarity lending
microcredit
ACCION International MicroBank (Venezuela)
FINCA International MicroBank (USA)
Grameen MicroBank (Bangladesh)
NABARD MicroBank (India)
Bono of U2
The ONE Campaign
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
El Nino
1985 Live Aid Concerts
Mengistu
Haile Mariam
Wikipedia List of
Famines
Thoughts on a Famine Early Warning System
Cool War: Economic
Sanctions as Weapons of Mass Destruction
Wikipedia Entry on Iraq
Sanctions
U.N.
Oil-for-Food Programme
Finishing Off
Serbia
IPE section of ISA website
1973 world oil crisis
Bretton Woods system
forex
hedge funds
bonds
Sovereign Wealth
Funds
CFR backgrounder on Sovereign Wealth Funds
A Users
Guide to Economic Sanctions
CSIS Backgrounder on Economic Espionage
Ethical Aspects of Sanctions Under
International Law
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) of the
United Nations
Forty Year U.S. Embargo Against Cuba
Freedom From Hunger
Full and
Productive Employment and Decent Work (pdf)
Global Political
Economy of Oil and U.S. Policy (pdf ppt)
Global Socio-Economic
Security Database
ILO Composite Economic
Security Index
The Hunger Project
The Promise
of Microfinance for Poverty Relief
The Threat
of Global Poverty
UN Millennium Development Goals
USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network
World Bank Group
The Politics of Hunger
Lecture 7a: World Trade Organization Law
autarky
protectionism
hyperinflation
List of
Countries with Fixed Exchange Rates
Marrakesh
Agreement
dolphin-safe tuna
fishing
hormone-treated beef
American Society of International Law
An
Explanation of Open Market Operations
Georgetown Law Academy of
WTO Law and Policy
IMF Balance of
Payments Manual (pdf)
On the Principles
of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo
SSRN Article
by Barbara Oliveira on WTO Law
Wikipedia
Business and Economics Portal
Wikipedia Entry on WTO
WTO Analytical Index: Guide to WTO Law and Practice
online version of Stiglitz article of Global Trade
Lecture 8: Management/Mismanagement of Foreign Aid
(secure)
USAID
World Bank
Alliance for
Progress
Iran-Contra Affair
AIPAC: America's Pro-Israel Lobby
Paul Findley
the OECD
Oxfam International
DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa)
Bank for International Settlements
Global Call to Action against Poverty
Make Poverty History
Mobuto Sese Seko
Assessing Aid: What Works,
What Doesn't, and Why (pdf)
CFR Backgrounder on
Debt Relief for Africa
CRS Reports on Foreign Aid
and Foreign Policy Affairs
Development Assistance Committee of the OECD
Foreign Aid: An Overview of US Programs (pdf)
Global Issues Foreign Aid Page
Heritage
Foundation Trade and Foreign Aid Research
InterAction.org
International Food Policy Research Institute
OneWorld.net
Results-Based
Management in UN Organizations (pdf)
SendMoneyHome.org
The
Pros and Cons of Bilateral vs Multilateral Aid
Wikipedia
Entry for Official Development Assistance
Wikipedia Entry for
Remittances
World Bank Development
Data and Statistics
online
version of Delivering on Debt Relief
Lecture 8a: Corruption in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(secure)
venality
Suharto
Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI)
Ferdinand Marcos
Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act
Vienna Convention
against Illicit Traffic in Narcotics
2008 UN Convention against Corruption
An Institutional Working Definition of Corruption (pdf)
Another Link
to the Corruption Perceptions Index
Corruption in Public Financial
Management
DSTAIR
Internet Center for Corruption
Research
Lay Person's
Guide to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
NIJ International Center
Prof. Cecil Greek's course
on International Crime
Transparency International
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
UN Convention
against Corruption website
VOA Special Reports on Worldwide Corruption
Wikipedia Entry
on Political Corruption
World Bank's Helping Countries Combat Corruption (pdf)
World Justice Information Network
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