Provides "a comparative analytic account of public management thinking and reform in twelve developed countries over a period of thirty years." - page 1.
Throughout the book, the author underlines the complementary roles of markets and the state, and the importance of building state capacity to assure administrativeefficiency, always having in count the 'democratic constraint', i.e., the ...
This major Handbook provides a state-of-the-art study of the recent history and future development of international public management reform.
Discussing the development and contribution of public administration education, research, and professional associations, the book covers decentralization and deregulation, institutional arrangement and support, and cooperation between ...
This book should be read by all students of comparative administration. B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, US and City University of Hong Kong This is an important book for several reasons.
Together, the book proposes lessons for public practitioners as well as for academic purposes. This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize.
Explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is presented in this book examine seven strategies for public management reform.
This book discusses the Europeanization of Turkish public administration since the early 2000s, offering an analysis of the transformation and basic features and problems of Turkish public administration in relation to the EU accession ...
Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last decade, this new volume draws on the previous ...
Edwards , P. , Ezzamel , M. , McLean , C. and Robson , K. ( 1999 ) New Public Sector Reform and Institutional Choice : The Local Management of Schools Initiative . London : The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants . Edwards ...
This landmark volume brings together leading social scientists including B Guy Peters, Anthony Cheung and Jon Pierre to systematically discuss emerging patterns of the reassertion of the state in the delivery of essential public services.