Beyond the new public management changing ideas and practices in governance
This text brings together a number of specialists who examine the range of ideas and concepts of the new models of reform, paying particular attention to the "new public management" model and to strategies of good governance. It evaluates progress made by governments and aid donors in putt...
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Cheltenham, UK
E. Elgar
c1998
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Table of 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