Institutional Change and Administrative Development (A Comparative Study of Institutional Theory in Public Administration)

Author: Jiang Meitang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Guided by the materialist conception of history from Marxism, with a perspective of institutional analysis and a focus on the history of administrative thought, this book combines the pursuit of self-positioning goals of the administrative system, i.e., administrative development, to systematically review, organize, and compare important schools within the field of public administration that address institutional and institutional change issues. It summarizes these into two major schools: Old Institutionalism and New Institutionalism. By systematically organizing and comparing the strengths and weaknesses of various theoretical schools of institutional research in public administration, and by comparing the scientific achievements of institutional research in related fields of social sciences, the conclusion is drawn: institutional equilibrium theory is a scientific theory that effectively ensures the successful implementation of the logical approach of "promoting administrative development through institutional innovation" at the practical level.