Public Management Reform

• Includes up to date "Country Files" of public management reforms and other historical, political, and socio-economic data of 12 countries and the EU Commission
• Comparison over a thirty-year period (1980-2010)
• Review of key contemporary debates
• Summary tables of key events and extensive bibliography to aid students

New to this edition

• Conceptual and theoretical framework developed to compare three leading visions of reform in light of empirical data
• Updated empirical and factual data, including coverage of all reforms from 2003-2010
• Entirely new introductory chapter on key debates of the past decade and new conclusion
• Covers recent growth of international measures and rankings of 'good governance'

Readership: Academics and advanced students in Public Management, Public Administration, Government and Politics; senior practitioners in public management and policy advisers

Christopher Pollitt, BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Geert Bouckaert, Professor and Director, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Christopher Pollitt was previously Professor of Government and Dean of Social Sciences at Brunel University (London -1990-98) and Professor of Public Management at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (1999-2006). Christopher is author of more than 50 scientific articles and author or editor of more than a dozen scholarly books. He is a past editor of Public Administration, and currently edits the International Review of Administrative Sciences. He has also undertaken extensive consultancy and advice work for a wide variety of organizations, including the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, H.M Treasury, the Finnish Ministry of Finance, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and the Danish Top Executives Forum.

Geert Bouckaert is past-President of the European Group for Public Administration, and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences. He publishes extensively on performance management and reform in the public sector.

Review(s) from previous edition

"Review(s) from previous edition

"'What a wonderfully well-crafted work this is, the best thing available on public management' - Professor Laurence E. Lynn Jr., George Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, Texas A&M University

Review(s) from previous edition

"'...this is a rich and informative book which any researcher, lecturer, or student in the field of public management or administration will want to use.' - Political Studies

Preface
1: Comparative Public Management Reform: an Introduction to the Key Debates
2: Problems and Responses: a Model of Public Management Reform
3: Many Houses: Types of Politico-Administrative Regime
4: Trajectories of Modernization and Reform
5: Results: Through a Glass Darkly
6: Politics and Management
7: Trade-Offs, Balances, Limits, Dilemmas, Contradictions, and Paradoxes
8: Reflections
Appendix A: The Socio-Economic Context
Appendix B: Country Files
Australia
Belgium
Canada
European Commission
Finland
France
Germany
Italy
The Netherlands
New Zealand
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States of America