ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is a true voyage, for those who wrote it and for those who shall read it. It started as an idea that emerged during a discussion between the two authors, who accidentally met in the exhibit hall during the annual conference of the American Society of Public Administration in Baltimore, mid-March 2011. We later realized that many accidental events shape our world in a peculiar way. Prominent unusual events impact our lives through governmental decisions and non-decisions, actions and reactions, reforms and regressive-reforms in a culturally diverted global environment. The voyage of this book started in that meeting.

We talked about the state of comparative research and at some point observed that an update of Ferrel ...

Get Global Dimensions of Public Administration and Governance: A Comparative Voyage now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.