Behaviouralism has contributed to the stimulation of comparative public administration. Analyse.

Answer: How to approach: It can be answered directly as have behavioural list movement has contributed in CPA.

• Modern behaviouralism, which developed in the late 1930’s and 1940’s,is concerned essentially with scientific study of human behaviour in various settings
• The behavioural approach in administrative studies has certain features– its literature is descriptive rather than prescriptive, with the studies on motivation being an exception – it emphasizes operational definition of terms and empirical study based on rigorous methods such as mathematical observation, controlled field experiments and laboratory studies of organization-like groups. – it is concerned with quantification,
  mathematiziation and formal theory construction
• The behavioural approach in public administration has motivated greater scientific research and systematic theory construction.
• Testing of hypotheses in cross -cultural contexts has made the study of comparative public administration a necessity
• In order to study the different ecologies of a variety of administrative systems, comparative public administration has borrowed concepts, tools, and findings from various social sciences, and thus has developed an interdisciplinary orientation.
• Behaviouralism itself has acted as an umbrella under which comparative public administration has found several modes of interactions, not only with public administration per se but also with other disciplines.
• In comparative public administration, such scholars as Morroe Berger, Robert Presthus and Michael Crozier have conducted empirical studies of bureaucratic behavior in differing cross-cultural settings.

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