List of Tables Foreword Preface List of Abbreviations Notes of the Editors and Contributors PART 1: PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION Development Administration: An Overview; O.P.Dwivedi Alternative Administration: Human Needs Centred and Sustainable; O.P.Dwivedi & K.M.Henderson A Third Sector Alternative: NGOs and Grassroots Initiatives; K.M.Henderson Inclusive Administration and Development: Feminist Critiques of Bureaucracy; R.Tremblay Ecological Principles, Emerging Organisational Forms, and Postmodernism; J.Mercier PART 2: REGIONAL STUDIES Bureaucracy and its Alternatives in East and Southeast Asia; M.Turner & J.Halligan Governance and Administration in South Asia; O.P.Dwivedi Redynamising the African Civil Service for the Twenty-First Century: Prospects for a Non-Bureaucratic Structure; M.Jide Balogun & G.Mutahaba Alternative Administration: A Southern African Perspective; V.G.Hilliard & H.F.Wissink Bureaucracy and Its Alternatives in the Middle East; A.Farazmand Development Administration and Its Alternatives in Latin America and the Caribbean; C.Meacham PART 3: FUTURE DIRECTIONS What Lies Ahead for the Administrative State?; G.Caiden Index