The article tackles the question, how to provide students with a comparative orientation to public administration. We eschew the older tradition of comparing major systems such British parliamentary system or French bureaucratic approaches to organizations’ structure. Rather, we seek to understand public administration in countries with different cultures, histories, and political regimes by focusing on international development. Our students are drawn from the Master of Public Administration degree program and the Master of International Affairs degree program. What unites them is an interest in international affairs and the desire to work internationally; international students take what they learn and apply it in their home countries. We ground the course on a model of international development with a strong focus on development in governance. We spend the first third of the class creating a development lens for understanding global practices in public management in which they use what they learned in the first part of the course to analyze a range of public management issues within governmental institutions and/or in working in the nongovernmental organizations and intergovernmental organization sectors. We use detailed case studies drawn from several case data banks to apply some of the core concepts of public administration such as leadership, stakeholder analysis, complexity, and implementation to development challenges such as fiscal issues, poverty alleviation, interorganizational collaboration, and human rights. We do this with a range of in-class exercises and assignments that students do out of class. One goal we have is to provide students with knowledge and skills to enhance their ability to work internationally since many have gone on to work for donor and various implementing organizations in international development. We believe that this is a reasonable measure of success of the approach we have taken to comparative public administration.

这篇文章解决了一个问题，即如何为学生提供公共管理的比较导向。我们避开了比较主要制度（如英国议会制度或法国官僚机构）与组织结构的旧传统。相反，我们试图通过关注国际发展来了解具有不同文化、历史和政治制度的国家的公共行政。我们的学生来自公共管理硕士学位课程和国际事务硕士学位课程。使他们团结在一起的是对国际事务的兴趣和在国际上工作的愿望；国际学生将他们所学的知识应用到自己的国家。我们的课程以国际发展模式为基础，重点关注治理方面的发展。我们在课程的前三分之一创建了一个发展镜头，以了解公共管理的全球实践，他们利用他们在课程第一部分中学到的知识来分析政府机构内和/或工作中的一系列公共管理问题非政府组织和政府间组织部门。我们使用从几个案例数据库中提取的详细案例研究，将公共行政的一些核心概念（如领导力、利益相关者分析、复杂性和实施）应用于发展挑战，如财政问题、扶贫、组织间合作和人权。我们通过学生在课外完成的一系列课堂练习和作业来做到这一点。我们的目标之一是为学生提供知识和技能，以提高他们在国际上工作的能力，因为许多人已经继续为捐助者和国际发展的各种执行组织工作。我们认为，这是衡量我们对比较公共行政所采取的方法是否成功的合理衡量标准。