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Author | : George Boyne |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2003-01-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0335230865 |
Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? Evaluating Public Management Reforms develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and then uses this framework to assess the impact of new arrangements for public service delivery in the UK. This book: * identifies the conceptual and practical problems of finding clear criteria for evaluating reforms * focuses on the shifts in public management towards markets and competition, towards the publication of performance indicators, and from larger to smaller organizations * considers what impact these reforms have had on the efficiency, responsiveness and equity of services * comprehensively reviews the evidence on the effects of reform on health care, housing and education * discusses the implications for public sector management.
Author | : Lawrence R. Jones |
Publisher | : JAI Press Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2004-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780762310319 |
Explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is presented in this book examine seven strategies for public management reform. They address the need for and application of various strategies, and impediments to implementation of each strategy. Case analysis is used to derive findings and conclusions.
Author | : Gerhard Hammerschmid |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-06-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1783475404 |
Based on a survey of more than 6700 top civil servants in 17 European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empirical findings regarding the dynamics, major trends and tools of administrative reforms, with special focus on the diversity of top executives’ perceptions about the effects of those reforms.
Author | : Christopher Pollitt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781280815027 |
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.
Author | : Patrick Gibert |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2022-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030897990 |
This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting changes. Yet some evolutions may occur that actually improve the efficiency level inside public administrations. The book identifies how and why such processes may occur. It explores an innovative approach to the way reform policies inside the public sector are assessed. The opening chapters examine the contributions of different disciplines to the study of change in the public sector, before proposing a framework to better understand management developments. The book then reviews eight crosscutting central government programmes successively launched since the late 1960s, examines how these programmes were designed and constructed, and analyses the ways in which three toolkits are appropriated: dashboards and indicators, cost-benefit analysis, and ex post evaluation. The final chapters examine the links between the development of agencification and the way in which central government proceeds to implement it, and demonstrate why and how the structure of human resources is crucial for initiating change processes. Together, the book proposes lessons for public practitioners as well as for academic purposes.
Author | : Christopher Pollitt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2017-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0192514385 |
Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, including the addition of extensive analyses and information about the impacts of austerity. Many new sources are cited and there is a new exploration of the interactions between austerity and the major paradigms of reform - NPM, the Neo-Weberian State and New Public Governance. The existing strengths of the previous editions have been retained while vital new material on developments since the Global Economic Crisis has been added. This remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, widely-cited academic text on public management reform in Europe, North America and Australasia.
Author | : Christopher Hood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199687021 |
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework. This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
Author | : Michael Barzelay |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-02-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520224434 |
How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. This text calls for public management to become a vibrant field of public policy.
Author | : Jacob Torfing |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2020-04-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788971221 |
This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the growing preference for alternatives, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms, explaining the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day.
Author | : C. Pollitt |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-01-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0230625363 |
The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional contexts.