Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Hardcover

Pollitt, Christopher; Bouckaert, Geert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198295960 ISBN 13: 9780198295969

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"What a wonderfully well-crafted work this is, the best thing available on public management"--Professor Laurence E. Lynn Jr., George Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, Texas A&M University, "This is a rich and informative book which any researcher, lecturer, or student in the field of public management or administration will want to use."--Political Studies.

About the Author

Christopher Pollitt is currently Professor of Public Management at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has worked in the UK Civil Service and as an academic and consultant. He was Professor of Government at Brunel University from 1990-8, President of the European Evaluation Society from 1995-7, and an advisor to the European Commission from 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0198295960
• ISBN 13: 9780198295969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 328