The Modern State and Its Study : New Administrative Sciences in a Changing Europe and United States Book

	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Foreword: Modern Public Administration as model and portent
Pt. I	Introduction
1	Introduction	3
2	The waxing and waning of the state and its study: changes and challenges in the study of Public Administration	17
Pt. II	The United States
3	Public Administration in the United States	39
Pt. III	Large European Countries
4	Administrative science in France	83
5	Administrative science as reform: German Public Administration	100
6	Public Administration in the United Kingdom: living with an identity crisis?	118
7	Public Administration and administrative science in Spain	137
Pt. IV	Smaller Continental European Countries
8	Expansion and diversification of Public Administration in the postwar welfare state: the case of the Netherlands	159
9	Between Anglo-Saxon behavioralism and continental law: Scandinavian Public Administration	179
10	Switzerland: emerging administrative sciences within federalism and direct democracy	198
Pt. V	Central and Eastern European Countries
11	Transitions in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland: autonomy and community among nation-states	217
Pt. VI	Conclusion
12	American versus European Public Administration: does Public Administration make the modern state, or does the state make Public Administration?	247
	Name index	261
	Subject index	267