ECOLOGICAL APPROACH - FRED W. RIGGS

INTRODUCTION

In recent years modern Governments have experienced a great change in their functions and responsibilities. In the changed context the role of Public Administration has become all the more crucial in fulfilling the goals of the government. Consequently, administrative theories and models have become all the more important to the understanding of it. The  ecological approach to the study of administration has been suggested when Western organisation theories have been found inadequate for the study of the problems of administration in the Third World Countries.

COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

An Introduction

Though, comparisons of Administrative systems has had a long tradition, it is only after WWII and with the emergence of new Asian and African Nations which brought a vigor in Comparative Studies of Public Administration.The nature of Comparative Administration has vast ramifications and ranges from the narrowest of studies to the broadest of analysis.