UNDERSTANDING TRANSFORMATION IN CENTER-PERIPHERY RELATIONS ON COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION STUDIES

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Comparative public administration gained importance in the 1940s; It lost its importance with the Vietnam War, in the 1990s, it became associated with the new Public Management in the USA and gained importance again. In this study, the development of comparative public administration and the tools it uses are discussed and the studies published since the emergence of the discipline in order to better understand the field are analyzed. Since there are many studies in the literature, the study is limited with some questions related to the subject. The restriction is divided into three categories: the methodology used in the studies, the countries in which they are compared and the subjects studied. With the study, the facts, methods and countries chosen as the object of the discipline were analyzed in the context of the transformation in the center-periphery relations. As a result of the researches, it was seen that the effect of the Eurocentric school on comparative public administration decreased, instead the Asian continent came to the forefront.

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Comparative Public Administration , New Public Management , United States , China

Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi

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Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi