New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects

by P.; ROSBO027ROSBO009 Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415243636
• ISBN10: 0415243637
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

An original, comprehensive and multidiscipline analysis of the impact of New Public Management in the UK. Leading authorities from around the world present evaluations of current thinking and highlight the challenges for the future.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Current trends and future prospects of public management: a guide	1	(4)
Kate McLaughlin
Stephen P. Osborne
PART I The New Public Management in context	5	(88)
The New Public Management in context	7	(8)
Stephen P. Osborne
Kate McLaughlin
Origins of the New Public Management: an international view from public administration/political science	15	(19)
Michael Barzelay
New Public Management: a discussion with special reference to UK health	34	(23)
Sandra Dawson
Charlotte Dargie
Explaining the New Public Management: the importance of context	57	(20)
Norman Flynn
The New Public Management, modernization and institutional change: disruptions, disjunctures and dilemmas	77	(16)
Janet Newman
PART II The New Public Management in action	93	(68)
Public service professionals and the New Public Management: control of the professions in the public services	95	(14)
Jane Broadbent
Richard Laughlin
The New Public Management and social exclusion: cause or response?	109	(20)
Marilyn Taylor
Best Value: New Public Management or new direction?	129	(12)
Steve Martin
New Public Management and social justice: just efficiency or equity as well?	141	(20)
Jenny Harrow
PART III The New Public Management in comparative context	161	(132)
The New Public Management: a perspective from mainland Europe	163	(18)
Kuno Schedler
Isabella Proeller
New Public Management, North American style	181	(14)
Sandford Borins
Australia, the New Public Management and the new millennium	195	(15)
Peter Carroll
Peter Steane
The New Public Management: a perspective from Africa	210	(17)
Kempe Ronald Hope Sr
New Public Management in developing countries	227	(16)
Willy McCourt
The politics of New Public Management: some experience from reforms in East Asia	243	(31)
Anthony B.L. Cheung
The New Public Management in international perspective: an analysis of impacts and effects	274	(19)
Christopher Pollitt
PART IV Researching the New Public Management	293	(46)
The New Public Management: an action research approach	295	(16)
Chris Huxham
Organizational research and the New Public Management: the turn to qualitative methods	311	(13)
Ewan Ferlie
Annabelle Mark
Researching the New Public Management: the role of quantitative methods	324	(15)
George Boyne
PART V Conclusions	339	(15)
The sustainability of the New Public Management in the UK	341	(13)
Ewan Ferlie
Louise Fitzgerald
Index	354