Public Administration in China and Australia: Different Worlds but Similar Challenges

Podger, Andrew; Yan, Bo

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Public Administration in China and Australia: Different Worlds but Similar Challenges

Date

2013

Authors

Podger, Andrew

Yan, Bo

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Comparing systems of government in such different countries as China and Australia is immensely difficult. Both countries have their own distinct traditions of governance and understandings about how to organise and operate government and the services the