Learning from International Public Management Reform (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, 11, Part A)
Language: English
Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, 2001
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248 pages. Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unres ponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citize ns, self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity and quality of servic es desired by the taxpaying public. Fiscal stress has plagued many governments, increasing the cry for less costly or just less government. Critics have exerted sustained pressure on politicians and public managers for transformational refo rm. Recommendations for change have included application of market and economic logic and private sector management methods to government. Managerial reform has been promoted on grounds that the public sector is organized and functions on m any of the wrong principles and needs reinvention and renewal. Government reform s in response to reformist pressures have included restraint of spending and tax cuts, sales of public assets, privatization and contracting-out of services, in creased performance measurement and auditing, output and outcomes based budgetin g, and new accounting and reporting methods. Reform has been accompanied by prom ises of smaller, less interventionist and more decentralized government, improve d efficiency and effectiveness, greater responsiveness and accountability to cit izens, increased choice between public and private providers of services, a more 'entrepreneurial' public sector capable of cooperating with business. While it is apparent why politicians and elected officials often support new managerial m ethods, observers wonder whether the promises of reform can be delivered upon to provide benefits depicted so attractively. Dialogue on this question is active.…
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- Learning from International Public Management Reform (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, 11, Part A)
- Author
- Lawrence R. Jones,James Guthrie,Peter Steane
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Publication year
- 2001
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0762307595
- ISBN 13
- 9780762307593
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- 15.6cm x 1.9cm x 23.39cm
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