Introduction to the Special Issue on Administrative Culture in Developing and Transitional Countries

This special issue on administrative culture explores and charts administrative culture in developing and transitional countries. The articles published in this special issue are genuinely international in scope. They include a myriad of perspectives for exploring aspects of administrative culture in countries and contexts ranging from Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Fiji and Ghana, to Mexico and Saudi Arabia. The articles fall into two main groupings. In terms of content specificity, the first loose grouping presents three articles that mainly deal with theoretical and contextual aspects relevant to the discourses and practices of administrative culture.