The Education and Training of Public Servants
Systems and Practices from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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“This book makes at least two significant contributions to the literature. It enhances our knowledge of how civil servants are prepared for their service, and the opportunities they have to continue to enhance their skills. It also discusses the issue of education and training over a significant time period. The authors and editors are also to be commended for the detailed research, and the coherent presentation of a wealth of information.”
— B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA
“This superb new collection is a massive step forward in explaining how some societies have built effective strategies for training and supporting those charged with ensuring the widest possible benefit in the implementation of policy and why others are still distorted by privilege, dogma and powerful vested interests. It should be required reading for all those entering public service and for all those charged with recruiting, mentoring andcultivating the common good.”
— Ian Cawood, Stirling University, UK
Toon Kerkhoff is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research interests include administrative and political history, corruption and integrity, public values and ethics, and public sector reform.Denis Moschopoulos is Professor at the Ionian University of Corfu in Greece, where he holds the chair of the institutional and administrative history of the Greek state. His publications concern the institutional development of the Greek state and the historical evolution of its public administration.
This book examines systems and practices of public service education and training in an international context. Focusing especially on Europe, but also with chapters on Australia, the United States and Canada, it provides a comparative analysis of the implementation, functioning and impact of public service training and education from the nineteenth century to the present. In doing so, the book highlights two key influential factors: national political-administrative traditions and administrative tasks imposed by social, political, and economic change. It furthers our knowledge of the role of the state, both as an employer and as the implementer of public policy, and demonstrates how historical analysis can be utilised to inform present debates about public service training, government reform and good governance. This book will appeal to practitioners, as well as all those interested in public administration and its history, governance, public management, bureaucracy, and civil service reform.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the history of civil service education and training Analyses the situation in countries across Europe, as well as the US and Australia Shows how public service is influenced by social, political, and economic changes and challenges
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"This book makes at least two significant contributions to the literature. It enhances our knowledge of how civil servants are prepared for their service, and the opportunities they have to continue to enhance their skills. It also discusses the issue of education and training over a significant time period. To understand the contemporary public bureaucracy it is important to understand both of these dimensions, also in the wide variety of national settings included in this book. The authors and editors are also to be commended for the detailed research, and the coherent presentation of a wealth of information."— B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA
"Recent international and national attempts to eliminate corruption by enforcing compliance and by establishing frameworks, regulations and ‘toolkits’ have largely failed. Instead, we need to examine the mentality of the honest, diligent public servant and to understand how this has developed over the modern period and how it can best be nurtured and encouraged. This superb new collection is a massive step forward in explaining how some societies have built effective strategies for training and supporting those charged with ensuring the widest possible benefit in the implementation of policy and why others are still distorted by privilege, dogma and powerful vested interests. As the limitations of the ‘New Public Management’ and populist politics are becoming increasingly clear, it is in comparative studies such as these that we can assess the means whereby the public service ethos can be revived and sustained in the political cultures of individual post-industrial societies to improve standards of governance. This text should be required reading for all those entering public service and for all those charged with recruiting, mentoring and cultivating the common good."— Ian Cawood, Stirling University, UK
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