Notes on Comparative Public Administration
IMPERATIVES FOR COMPARATIVE STUDY EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES You go out everyday either to your school or workplace, market, church, mosque, travel to other cities, tourist centres or to other countries to find out that we are meeting people with familiar looks. We also find out that in our daily contacts, we evaluate some people as either beautiful or ugly, good or bad, hostile or friendly, tall or short, fat or thin. We also compare non-human objects. Some houses are just simply beautiful and attractive while others are adjudged as unfascinating and inhabitable. While you do all these, we are directly or indirectly engaging in comparative analysis. To compare, identify similarities and differences by us are part of the in-built nature of man. Comparison, is therefore, a daily affair in our contracts and observation with people and objects. Public Administration Theory Public Administrati