Democracy and Public Management Reform Building the Republican State

by Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780199261185
• ISBN10: 0199261180
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written by a distinguished Brazilian academic with effective political experience in reforming the state, this is an innovative analysis of the effects of public management reform on the new state of the twenty-first century. The result is essential reading for all those with an interest in globalization, the politics of the state, and government reform.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
PART I THE RISE OF THE MODERN STATE
1. Historical Forms of State	13	(8)
A Long Historical Process	14	(2)
The Stages of the State	16	(5)
2. Absolute State and Patrimonial Administration	21	(6)
3. The Liberal State and Civil Service Reform	27	(14)
Civil Service Reform in Prussia	30	(2)
Civil Service Reform in Britain	32	(2)
Civil Service Reform in France	34	(1)
Civil Service Reform in the United States	35	(6)
4. The Transition to Liberal Democracy	41	(12)
Two New Arguments for Democracy	42	(3)
Other Rational Motives	45	(3)
Liberal Democracy Becomes a Reality	48	(5)
5. The Social-Democratic State	53	(14)
Social or Plural Democracy	56	(4)
Four Models of Capitalism	60	(4)
A Developmental Bureaucracy	64	(3)
6. The Crisis of the Social-Democratic State	67	(12)
The Crisis of the 1980's	68	(2)
Different Responses to the Crisis	70	(2)
The Crisis of the State Defined	72	(2)
The Cycles of the State	74	(5)
7. The Global System and the State	79	(10)
The Global System and 'Globalism'	81	(4)
Global Markets Require Strong States	85	(4)
8. The Emergence of Republican Rights	89	(14)
Republican Rights	91	(4)
Threats, Overlapping Consensus, and the Public Interest	95	(2)
Defenders and Offenders	97	(6)
9. The Social-Liberal State	103	(12)
Social Liberalism as a Synthesis of Liberalism and Social Democracy	105	(4)
Contracting Out Social Services	109	(3)
More Market Allocation and More Regulation	112	(3)
10. The Republican State	115	(16)
Republican Ideals	118	(2)
Republicanism and Liberalism	120	(4)
The Cost of Rights	124	(3)
The Capacity to Tax	127	(4)
11. Republican Democracy	131	(16)
From Aristocratic Republicanism to Republican Democracy	131	(2)
Republican, Participatory, or Deliberative Democracy?	133	(7)
Social Accountability and the Republican Democracy	140	(7)
PART II REFORMING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
12. Bureaucratic and Civil Service Reform	147	(10)
Bureaucratic Administration's Intrinsic Irrationality	148	(2)
The Rise of Public Management	150	(3)
The Persistence of Bureaucratic Administration	153	(4)
13. Public Management Reform in Practice	157	(30)
Public Management Reform in Britain	160	(4)
Public Management Reform in New Zealand	164	(1)
Public Management Reform in Australia	165	(2)
Public Management Reform in the United States	167	(3)
Public Management Reform in Sweden	170	(1)
Public Management Reform in France	171	(1)
Reform in Latin America	172	(7)
The Brazilian 1995/1998 Public Management form	179	(5)
The Sequencing Question	184	(3)
14. Public Management Reform Defined	187	(14)
Defining Characteristics	189	(5)
Bureaucrats' Accountability	194	(3)
The Logic of the Range of Accountability Mechanisms	197	(4)
15. The Basic Model	201	(12)
Forms of Property	201	(2)
Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Activities	203	(3)
The Matrix	206	(4)
The Resulting Size of the State Organization	210	(3)
16. Devolution and Decentralization	213	(6)
17. Executive and Regulatory Agencies	219	(10)
Administrative Autonomy	220	(2)
Judicial and Political Autonomy	222	(2)
Autonomy or Insulation?	224	(5)
18. Social Organizations	229	(8)
19. Managing from the Strategic Core	237	(10)
Strategic Plan	238	(1)
Management Strategies	239	(3)
Management Contracts	242	(5)
PART III A DISCUSSION OF THE REFORM
20. Theoretical Approaches to New Public Management	247	(14)
The Political Approach	248	(3)
Public Choice	251	(5)
Organization Theory	256	(5)
21. Critics of Reform	261	(6)
A Neo-Liberal Reform?	261	(2)
Ranson and Stewart's Critique	263	(4)
22. The Democratic Constraint	267	(10)
A Necessarily Democratic Reform	267	(3)
The Economic and the Democratic Constraints	270	(3)
Autonomy and Morality	273	(4)
Conclusion	277	(6)
References	283	(24)
Index	307