Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Softcover

Pollitt, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019829722X ISBN 13: 9780198297222

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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. The complex and often-avoided question of the results of reform is tackled head-on. A general model of the process of reform is proposed in which key factors influencing the scope, speed and depth of change are identified and related to structures and strategies. In the second half of the book the authors critically dissect the claims of public sector transformations.

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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: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019829722X
• ISBN 13: 9780198297222
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328