Public management reform : a comparative analysis : new public management, governance, and the neo-Weberian state

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Public management reform : a comparative analysis : new public management, governance, and the neo-Weberian state

Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert

Oxford University Press, 2011

3rd ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [332]-358

Includes index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780199595082

Description

Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America, and Australasia. This third edition has been completely rewritten to incorporate a mass of recent empirical data and to introduce a new theoretical and conceptual framework by identifying three leading visions of reform. Chapters analyse key debates, the process of change, different national systems and trajectories, results, political factors, and paradoxes and trade-offs in an integrated volume. Covering reforms over a thirty-year period (1980-2010), the book offers a detailed and structured comparison of twelve countries and the EU Commission by means of an unparalleled synthesis of evidence and sources. Extensive factual appendices provide an invaluable resource for students.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • 1. Comparative Public Management Reform: an Introduction to the Key Debates
  • 2. Problems and Responses: a Model of Public Management Reform
  • 3. Many Houses: Types of Politico-Administrative Regime
  • 4. Trajectories of Modernization and Reform
  • 5. Results: Through a Glass Darkly
  • 6. Politics and Management
  • 7. Trade-Offs, Balances, Limits, Dilemmas, Contradictions, and Paradoxes
  • 8. Reflections
  • APPENDIX A: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT
  • APPENDIX B: COUNTRY FILES
  • Australia
  • Belgium
  • Canada
  • European Commission
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • The Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Sweden
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780199595099

Description

Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has established itself as the standard text in the field, presenting a comparative analysis of recent changes in Public Management and Public Administration in a range of countries in Europe, North America, and Australasia. This third edition has been completely rewritten to incorporate a mass of recent empirical data and to introduce a new theoretical and conceptual framework by identifying three leading visions of reform. Chapters analyse key debates, the process of change, different national systems and trajectories, results, political factors, and paradoxes and trade-offs in an integrated volume. Covering reforms over a thirty-year period (1980-2010), the book offers a detailed and structured comparison of twelve countries and the EU Commission by means of an unparalleled synthesis of evidence and sources. Extensive factual appendices provide an invaluable resource for students.

Table of Contents

  • APPENDIX A: THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONTEXT
  • APPENDIX B: COUNTRY FILES

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