Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform

by Peters; B.Guy

• ISBN13: 9780415406673
• ISBN10: 0415406676
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. the contributors assess its scope and objectives, and the ways in which these reforms have impacted on the traditional roles of civil servants.

Table of Contents

Civil servants and politicians: the changing balance

The Anglo-American Democracies

Public service bargains and public service reform

Reinventing government, or reinventing politics? the american experience

Agencies, ministers and civil servants in Britain

Continental Europe

Bureaucrats and politicians in the politics of administrative reforms in France (1988-1997)

A solid rock in rough seas? Institutional change and continuity in the German federal bureaucracy

New public management from a theoretical and Austrian perspective

Politicians, bureaucrats and administrative reform in Hungary: who stops whom?

Bureaucratic politics in Spain: a long lasting tradition Carlos Alba

(Re)shaping the politics-administration nexus in Greece: the decline of a symbiotic relationship?

Scandinavia

Bureaucratic autonomy as a political asset

Parallel paths?: administrative reform, public policy and politico-bureaucratic relationships in Sweden

Reform "industry" in the Finnish government: towards the new welfare idea through the central and local administrative reforms of the 1980s and 1990s

The Pacific Region

Politicians, bureaucrats and public sector reform in Australia and New Zealand

Party members, elite bureaucrats and government reform in Japan's changing political landscape

Conclusions

The comparative dimension of administrative reform: creating open villages nad redesigning the politics of administration

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