Public management reform : a comparative analysis - new public management, governance, and the neo-Weberian state /

Since its publication in 2000, Public Management Reform has 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 h...

• Main Author: Pollitt, Christopher
• Other Authors: Bouckaert, Geert
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Subjects: ADMINISTRACION PUBLICA; REFORMA ADMINISTRATIVA; CAMBIO ORGANIZACIONAL; DESARROLLO ORGANIZACIONAL

Table of Contents:

• 1. Comparative public management reform: an introduction to the key debates
• 2. Problems and responses: a model of public management reform
• 3. Many houses: types of politico-administrative regime
• 4. Trajectories of modernization and reform;
• 5. Results: through a glass darkly
• 6. Politics and management
• 7. Trade-offs, balances, limits, dilemmas, contradictions, and paradoxes
• 8. Reflections
• Appendix A: the socio-economic context
• Appendix B: country files and tables of events.