| Author | : Lawrence R. Jones |
| Publisher | : JAI Press Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2004-08-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780762310319 |
Explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is presented in this book examine seven strategies for public management reform. They address the need for and application of various strategies, and impediments to implementation of each strategy. Case analysis is used to derive findings and conclusions.
| Author | : Christopher Pollitt |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2000-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781280815027 |
In this major new contribution to a rapidly expanding field, the authors offer an integrated analysis of the wave of management reforms which have swept through so many countries in the last twenty years. The reform trajectories of ten countries are compared, and key differences of approach discussed. Unlike some previous works, this volume affords balanced coverage to the 'New Public Management' (NPM) and the 'non-NPM' or 'reluctant NPM' countries, since it covers Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK and the USA. Unusually, it also includes a preliminary analysis of attempts to improve management within the European Commission.
| Author | : Stephen P. Osborne |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 448 |
| Release | : 2010-01-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1135173273 |
Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important area. The New Public Governance? sets out to explore this emergent field of research and to present a framework with which to understand it. Divided into five parts, the book examines: Theoretical underpinnings of the concept of governance, especially competing perspectives from Europe and the US Governance of inter-organizational partnerships and contractual relationships Governance of policy networks Lessons learned and future directions Under the steely editorship of Stephen Osborne and with contributions from leading academics including Owen Hughes, John M. Bryson, Don Kettl, Guy Peters and Carsten Greve, this book will be of particular interest to researchers and students of public administration, public management, public policy and public services management.
| Author | : Jacob Torfing |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 310 |
| Release | : 2020-04-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1788971221 |
This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the growing preference for alternatives, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms, explaining the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day.
| Author | : Ewan Ferlie |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 805 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 019922644X |
The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.
| Author | : C. Pollitt |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2007-01-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0230625363 |
The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional contexts.
| Author | : George Boyne |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2003-01-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0335230865 |
Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? Evaluating Public Management Reforms develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and then uses this framework to assess the impact of new arrangements for public service delivery in the UK. This book: * identifies the conceptual and practical problems of finding clear criteria for evaluating reforms * focuses on the shifts in public management towards markets and competition, towards the publication of performance indicators, and from larger to smaller organizations * considers what impact these reforms have had on the efficiency, responsiveness and equity of services * comprehensively reviews the evidence on the effects of reform on health care, housing and education * discusses the implications for public sector management.
| Author | : Sabine Kuhlmann |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 415 |
| Release | : 2021-01-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030536971 |
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.
| Author | : Carsten Greve |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2016-08-17 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 113756363X |
This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on the assessments of administrative executives, the book compares the Nordic countries with the Anglo-Saxon, the Germanic, the Napoleonic and the East European group of countries. The book addresses the following questions: What reform trends are relevant in the public administrations of the Nordic countries? What institutional features characterize the state authorities in these countries? What characterizes the role identity, self-understanding, dominant values, and motivation of administrative executive in the Nordic countries? What characterizes reform processes, trends and content, what is the relevance of different types of management instruments, and what are their perceived effects and the perceived performance of the public administration? The book also examines how the different Nordic countries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.
