The Ashgate research companion to new public management
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The Ashgate research companion to new public management
(Ashgate research companion)
Ashgate, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-494) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed are: c
Table of Contents
- 1: Introduction
- I: NPM Processes: Driving Forces
- 2: Basic NPM Ideas and their Development
- 3: The Political-Administrative Design of NPM
- 4: The Relevance of Culture for NPM
- 5: New Public Organisations: A Revivalist Movement 1
- II: Convergence and Divergence among Countries
- 6: NPM in Anglo-Saxon Countries
- 7: Public Management Reform in Continental Europe: National Distinctiveness
- 8: NPM in Scandinavia
- 9: NPM in Asian Countries
- III: Sector Studies
- 10: Healthcare States and Medical Professions: The Challenges from NPM
- 11: NPM, Network Governance and the University as a Changing Professional Organization
- 12: NPM Ideas and Social Welfare Administration
- 13: Utility Regulation and NPM
- IV: NPM Features
- 14: Structural Devolution to Agencies
- 15: Managing Performance and Auditing Performance
- 16: Managerialism and Models of Management
- 17: Privatization
- 18: A Transformative Perspective on Public-Private Partnerships
- V: Effects and Implications of NPM
- 19: NPM and the Search for Efficiency
- 20: Unions, Corporatist Participation and NPM
- 21: NPM: Restoring the Public Trust through Creating Distrust?
- 22: Scientization
- 23: An Aftermath of NPM: Regained Relevance of Public Values and Public Service Motivation
- 24: Serving the Public? Users, Consumers and the Limits of NPM
- 25: Responses to NPM: From Input Democracy to Output Democracy
- 26: Normativity and NPM: A Need for Some Theoretical Coherence
- VI: NPM and Beyond
- 27: Beyond NPM? Some Development Features
- 28: Reinventing Weber: The Role of Institutions in Creating Social Trust
- 29: Public Governance and Public Services: A 'Brave New World' or New Wine in Old Bottles? 1
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