| Description |
xvi, 308 pages ; 24 cm |
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New horizons in public policy |
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New horizons in public policy.
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| Contents |
Introduction The analysis of public management and governance / Martin Minogue, Charles Polidano and David Hulme -- pt. 1. Changing ideas about public management and governance Changing the state: concepts and practice in the reform of the public sector / Martin Minogue Policy transfer: a framework for comparative analysis / David P. Dolowitz and David Marsh The new public management and policy transfer: the role of international organizations / Richard Common Public management for social inclusion / Maureen Mackintosh Towards synergy in social provision: civic organizations and the state / Gordon White and Mark Robinson Public management: towards a radical agenda / Robert Chambers Professionalism, participation and the public good: issues of arbitration in development management and the critique of the neo-populist approach / David Brown -- pt. 2. Changing institutions and practices in public management and governance Civil service reforms: limping into the twenty-first century / Moses N. Kiggundu Civil service reform equals retrenchment? The experience of "right-sizing" and retrenchment in Ghana, Uganda and the UK / Willy McCourt Management decentralization in practice: a comparison of public health and water services in Ghana / George A. Larbi Private markets, public identities, management and tertiary education in contemporary Vietnam / Helen Chauncey Civil society and social provision: the role of civic organizations / Mark Robinson and Gordon White Central-local relations in the Asia-Pacific: convergence or divergence? / Mark Turner Public services, complex emergencies and the humanitarian imperative: perspectives from Angola / Ian Christoplos Conclusions Looking beyond the new public management / Charles Polidano, David Hulme and Martin Minogue |
| Summary |
"Beyond the New Public Management is an important book which provides a comprehensive analysis of current conceptual debates in public management and governance; and critically reviews attempts made over the last two decades to apply the 'new public management' model in developed and developing countries."--BOOK JACKET. "This thoughtful and wide-ranging book will be essential reading for academics, students and practitioners of public management, public policy, governance and development."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at Public Management for the Next Century: an International Conference to Review Trends and Public Management and Governance, held June-July 1997, University of Manchester |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Administrative agencies -- Reorganization -- Congresses.
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Administrative agencies -- Reorganization.
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Civil service reform.
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Civil service reform -- Congresses.
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Organizational change -- Congresses.
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Organizational change.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Hulme, David.
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Minogue, Martin.
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Polidano, Charles, 1967-
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Public Management for the Next Century: an International Conference to Review Trends and Public Management and Governance (1997 : University of Manchester)
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| LC no. |
98004035 |
| ISBN |
1840642440 |
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1858989132 |
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