A ubiquitous feature of modern statutory law is delegation. Legislation typically delegates policy implementation to a bureaucracy. This delegation presents a dilemma. The specialized knowledge of an expert agency may be necessary to unravel the technical uncertainties surrounding the impact of alternative policy actions; however, the policy preferences of bureaucrats are often different from t...

Abstract Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive institutional environment? We explore these questions in a study of privatization in postcommunis...

The purpose of this research was to examine technology adoption and the educational change process. This paper found eight factors essential to technology adoption in countries that are heavily centralized and strongly affected by external forces (globalism etc.). These factors are communication, expertise capacity, minimal bureaucracy, continuous research, individual change and organizational ...

We wish to acknowledge the assistance and support of this research, which has been provided by the Earhart Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina. We also express appreciation to Professor Hal G. Rainey for his helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript. This is a revised version of a paper presented a...

Public administration has enormous implications for government’s capacity to cope with both internal and external pressure. China’s old-fashioned ruling style has not been able to meet the nation’s development needs. Since the early 1980s, China has launched six administrative reforms in order to solve the socioeconomic problems associated with rapid economic development. The ve completed refor...

The practice of Common Law and Roman Law differ, even though both systems in theory permit what they don't prohibit. The Common Practice derived from Common Law in fact truly does tend to permit what it doesn't prohibit, while the Roman Practice derived from Roman Law tends to prohibit what it doesn't permit. Tracing the historical sources for the evolutionary divergence between current Roman P...