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Author Ferlie, Ewan, 1956-

Title The new public management in action / Ewan Ferlie ... [and others]
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description viii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Characterizing the 'New Public Management' -- 2. Public Sector Restructuring -- 3. The Creation and Evolution of Quasi-Markets -- 4. A Process of Transformational Change? -- 5. Board Composition: Managers and 'Magistrates' -- 6. The Board: From 'Rubber Stamp' to Strategy-Maker? -- 7. Professionals and the New Public Management -- 8. The Question of Accountability: New Forms or a Democratic Deficit? -- 9. Concluding Discussion -- Appendix. Research Design and Methodology
Summary Important analytic themes include: an analysis of the nature of the change process in the UK public services, characterization of quasi markets, the changing role of local Boards, and possible adaptation by professional groupings. The book also addresses the important and controversial question of accountability, and contributes to the development of a general theory of the New Public Management
This book analyses changes which have occurred in the organization and management of the UK public services over the last 15 years, looking particularly at the restructured NHS. The authors present an up-to-date analysis around three main themes: the transfer of private sector models to the public sector, the management of change in the public sector, and management reorganization and role change. In doing so they examine to what extent a New Public Management has emerged, and ask whether this is a parochial UK development or of wider international significance. This is a topical and important issue in management training, professional, and policy circles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-278) and index
Subject Great Britain. National Health Service.
National health services -- Great Britain.
Administrative agencies -- Great Britain -- Management.
Civil service -- Great Britain.
Local government -- Great Britain.
National health services -- Great Britain.
State Medicine -- organization & administration.
Government.
Public Sector -- trends.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Politics and government http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056868 -- 1979-
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056924
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
Author Ferlie, Ewan, 1956-
Ashburner, Lynn.
LC no. 96002135
ISBN 0198289022 (acid-free paper)
0198289030 (paperback: acid-free paper)