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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.
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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The nature of public management reform | 6 |
| 2 | Problems and responses: a model of public management reform | 24 |
| 3 | Many houses: types of politico-administrative regime | 39 |
| 4 | Trajectories of modernization and reform | 62 |
| 5 | Results: through a glass darkly | 97 |
| 6 | Politics and management | 134 |
| 7 | Trade-offs, balances, limits, dilemmas and paradoxes | 149 |
| 8 | Reflections: management and governance | 172 |
| App | Country files | 192 |
| Australia | 199 | |
| Canada | 208 | |
| Finland | 218 | |
| France | 227 | |
| The Federal Republic of Germany | 235 | |
| The Netherlands | 244 | |
| New Zealand | 252 | |
| Sweden | 261 | |
| United Kingdom | 270 | |
| USA | 278 | |
| Bibliography | 289 | |
| Index | 307 |
Overview
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.