Public Management Reform A Comparative Analysis - New Public Management, Governance, and the Neo-Weberian State

by Pollitt, Christopher; Bouckaert, Geert

• ISBN13: 9780199595082
• ISBN10: 0199595089
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Since its publication in 2000,Public Management Reformhas 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.

Author Biography

Christopher Pollitt was previously Professor of Government and Dean of Social Sciences at Brunel University (London -1990-98) and Professor of Public Management at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (1999-2006). Christopher is author of more than 50 scientific articles and author or editor of more than a dozen scholarly books. He is a past editor of Public Administration, and currently edits the International Review of Administrative Sciences. He has also undertaken extensive consultancy and advice work for a wide variety of organizations, including the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, H.M Treasury, the Finnish Ministry of Finance, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and the Danish Top Executives Forum.

Geert Bouckaert is past-President of the European Group for Public Administration, and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. He publishes extensively on performance management and reform in the public sector.

Table of Contents

List Of Figures	p. xiv
List Of Tables	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
Comparative public management reform: an introduction to the key debates	p. 1
Problems and responses: a model of public management reform	p. 31
Many houses: types of politico-administrative regime	p. 47
Trajectories of modernization and reform	p. 75
Results: through a glass darkly	p. 126
Politics and management	p. 161
Trade-offs, balances, limits, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes	p. 182
Reflections	p. 206
The Socio-Economic Context	p. 222
Country Files And Tables Of Events	p. 231
Australia	p. 231
Belgium	p. 238
Canada	p. 247
The European Commission	p. 256
Finland	p. 263
France	p. 271
Germany	p. 279
Italy	p. 285
The Netherlands	p. 290
New Zealand	p. 298
Sweden	p. 305
United Kingdom	p. 313
United States Of America	p. 321
Bibliography	p. 332
Index	p. 359
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