Public Sector Reform : Rationale, Trends and Problems

by Jan-Erik Lane

• ISBN13: 9780761953678
• ISBN10: 0761953671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-17
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vi
Introduction: Public Sector Reform: Only Deregulation, Privatization and Marketization?	1	(16)
Jan-Erik Lane
New Public Sector Models: Reform in Australia and New Zealand	17	(30)
John Halligan
The Bewildering Pace of Public Sector Reform in Canada	47	(17)
Evert A. Lindquist
The Privatization of Infrastructures in Germany	64	(50)
Ira Denkhaus
Volker Schneider
Rebuilding the State: Public Sector Reform in Central and Eastern Europe	114	(33)
Joachim Jens Hesse
Farewell to the British State?	147	(21)
Michael J. Goldsmith
Edward C. Page
Anglo-Saxon Public Management and European Governance: the Case of Dutch Administrative Reforms	168	(20)
Walter J.M. Kickert
Public Sector Reform in the Nordic Countries	188	(21)
Jan-Erik Lane
Public Sector Reform in France	209	(16)
Thierry Postif
Local Government in Britain after Thatcher	225	(10)
Gerry Stoker
Fiscal and Financial Decentralization: a Comparative Analysis of Six West European Countries	235	(22)
Bernard Steunenberg
Nico Mol
Searching for Competitiveness: the Role of the Spanish Public Sector in the 1980s and 1990s	257	(26)
Carles Boix
Incorporation as Public Sector Reform	283	(18)
Jan-Erik Lane
Conclusion	301	(7)
Jan-Erik Lane
Index	308