This study was conceived while I was a research assistant in the Department of Development Economics at the University of Heidelberg. The atmosphere there stimulated my interest in the increasing importance of the instimtional dimension of development administration. Since the smdy consists of both theoretical and empirical data, a large number of very different people have helped me to successfully complete the project. For the theoretical parts and the overall framework I am indebted to my advisor Prof. Bruno Knall, Dr. Hans Christoph Rieger, and my colleague Karl Ludwig Brockmann of the Department of Development Economics. I also want to express my gratimde to Bernhard Warkentin, Micheline Beaudry-Somcynsky, Dr. Kraft, Prof. Seifert, Prof. Rifkin, Prof. Liesegang, and Prof. Kieser, who offered useful advice on the overall framework of the smdy. For the empirical parts, I am also indebted to a large number of people in many different organizations. In particular may I express my gratimde to Mr. Kano and Mr. Sasaki of nCA. With their kind assistance I could stay two times as a visiting researcher in nCA and could survey several projects in Thailand. I am greatly indebted to the nCA office and the project personnel there. The frank comments about their activities was a very useful source of information.

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1 Introduction and Objective.- 1.1 Introduction: The Need for Institutional Analyses of Donor Administrations.- 1.2 Approaches to Institutional Analysis.- 1.3 The Case of Japan's Development Assistance.- 1.4 Objectives and Research Method of the Study.- 2 Development Administration and Organization Theory.- 2.1 Approaches to Organization Theory.- 2.2 Operationalization of Contingency Theory.- 2.3 Conclusion.- 3 The Procedural Structure Of Japan's Development Administration.- 3.1 Project Identification.- 3.2 Preparation and Appraisal.- 3.3 Selection.- 3.4 Detailed Design.- 3.5 Implementation.- 3.6 Monitoring.- 3.7 Ex-Post Evaluation.- 3.8 Termination/Follow-up.- 3.9 Conclusion for the First Working Hypothesis.- 4 The New Institutional Economics Approach.- 4.1 The Need for an Extension of Contingency Theory.- 4.2 Different Behavioral Assumptions and Their Consequences.- 4.3 Economic Bureaucracy Theories.- 4.4 A Principal-Agent Approach to Bureaucracy.- 4.5 Conclusion.- 5 The Multiple Agency System In Japan's Development Administration.- 5.1 The Importance of Trust and Informal Trade in Japan.- 5.2 Organizations Responsible for Grant Aid and Technical Assistance.- 5.3 Conclusion to the Second Working Hypothesis.- 6 The Effects of Institutional Innovations.- 6.1 The Introduction of Project Cycle Management (PCM) in Japan.- 6.2 PCM and Contingency Theory.- 6.3 PCM and New Institutional Economics.- 6.4 Conclusion.- 7 Summary and Final Remarks.