A New Standard for Classification of Countries: Social Integration and Politics-administration Relationship

In the era of globalization in which the validity of the New Public Management (NPM) is suspected, comparative administrative research is necessary in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the government. This study presented the new national classification criteria for comparative administration as a social integration and political-administrative relationship, and classified 56 developing countries into four types through the fuzzy set ideal analysis method. As a result of the analysis, 10 countries with “integrated/administrative state” (Type A), 17 countries with “integrated/legislative state” (Type B), 16 countries with “non-integrated/administrative state” (Type C), and 10 countries with “non-integrated/legislative state” (Type D) were derived. This study contributes to future comparative administrative research by presenting new national classification criteria.