Keith M. Henderson
Professor
(716) 878-5019
Campus Address: Classroom Building B212
henderkm@buffalostate.edu
Education
D.P.A. Public Administration, University of Southern California; Post-Doctoral study, Public Law and Government, Columbia University
M.S. Public Administration, University of Southern California
B.A. Psychology, Occidental College
Research Interests
Current research interests focus on alternatives to conventional bureaucratic service delivery such as public-private partnerships, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Authorities (Public Benefit Corporations). A related interest is administrative reform and reorganization in developing countries including application of New Public Management thinking and training of senior civil servants.
Courses Usually Taught
- Introductory, survey courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
- PSC 315: State and Local Government Politics
- PSC 360: Public Administration
- PSC 368: Comparative Public Administration
- PSC 500, PAD 500 Public Administration and Policy
- PAD 501 Comparative Public Administration
Selected Publications:
Henderson, K. 1971. “A New Comparative Public Administration,” in Frank Marini, Ed. Toward a New Public Administration (San Francisco: Chandler).
Henderson, K. 1972. “Developmental Comparative Politics and Administration,”Polity 5 (2).
Henderson, K. 1976. “Mixing Oil with Politics: The Case of Iran,” Contemporary Review 229 (1327).
Henderson, K. 1981. “From Comparative Public Administration to Comparative Public Policy,” International Review of Administrative Sciences 35 (4).
Henderson, K. 1982. “American Public Administration in International Perspective,” Public Administration and Development 2 (2).
Henderson, K. 1983.The Study of Public Administration. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America).
Henderson, K. 1984.Public Administration, Vance Bibliographies.
Henderson, K. 1989. “Senior Management Training,” New York, NY: United Nations Department of Technical Cooperation.
Henderson, K. 1990. “Indigenization and Internationalization in the Study of Comparative Public Administration,” Crossroads, A Socio-Political Journal 32.
O.P. Dwivedi and Keith M. Henderson, eds., Public Administration in World Perspective (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1990).
Keith M. Henderson and O.P. Dwivedi, eds., Bureaucracy and the Alternatives in World Perspective (London: Macmillan, 1999).
"Urban Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Escaping Western Bureaucratic Solutions," nternational Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2001).
"Alternative Service Delivery in Developing Countries: NGOs and Other Non-Profits in Urban Areas." Public Organization Review, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2002).
"Alternative Administration: Implications of Indigenous Models," Public Organization Review, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2004).
"American Administrative Culture: An Evolutionary Perspective," J. Jabbra and O.P. Dwivedi, eds. Administrative Culture in a Global Context (Whitby, Ontario, de Sitter Publications, 2005)
"Asian Communist, Islamic Revivalist, and Other Models of Alternative Administration," Public Organization Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2005.
"New York’s Other Governments, the Public Authorities," in Jeffrey Stonecash and Robert Pecorella, eds., Governing New York State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005).
"Shrinking the Administrative State," Ciencia Politica, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2005.
"Parallel Universes: Canadian and U.S. Public Administration Study," Canadian Public Administration, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2009.
"American Perspectives on Canadian Public Administration, O.P. Dwivedi, Tim Mau and Byron Sheldrick, eds. Evolving Physiology of Government: Canadian Public Administration in Transition (Ottawa, University of Ottawa, 2009).
