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A prime methodology used in Comparative Public Administration is :

  • A.Philosophical
  • B.Experimental
  • C.Model building
  • D.Historical

Answer: C

The prime methodology is model building.

Comparative Public Administration relies heavily on constructing models and typologies to compare very different administrative systems. Fred Riggs's agraria-industria and fused-prismatic-diffracted models, and the bureaucratic model drawn from Max Weber, are the best-known examples. A model simplifies reality so that systems from different cultures can be described in common terms and compared.

Philosophical and historical approaches belong to the older, normative and institutional study of administration, and controlled experiments are rarely possible when the units are whole national administrations.

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