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Reinventing government : a fifth-year report card / Donald F. Kettl.
LIBRA JK469 1998 .K4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kettl, Donald F.
- Series:
- CPM report ; 98-1.
- CPM report ; 98-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Performance Review (U.S.)--Evaluation.
- National Performance Review (U.S.).
- Evaluation.
- Government productivity--United States.
- Government productivity.
- United States.
- Administrative agencies--United States--Management.
- Administrative agencies.
- Management.
- Administrative agencies--United States--Reorganization.
- Bureaucracy--United States.
- Bureaucracy.
- Civil service reform--United States.
- Civil service reform.
- Government executives--United States.
- Government executives.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 71 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Other Title:
- Fifth-year report card.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Center for Public Management, The Brookings Institution : [distributed by the Brookings Institution Press], [1998]
- Summary:
- This book assesses the contributions of "reinventing government" to date. Donald Kettl shows that the movement is real, producing real results: federal employment has been downsized, and significant improvements to customer service and the procurement process have occurred. But, Kettl says, the movement has missed the most important trend: the transformation of the federal government from direct delivery of services to the indirect management of others, from state and local government grantees to private contractors, who do most of the work instead. This transformation has created a host of "fuzzy boundaries", Kettl concludes, that the federal government must learn to manage if government performance is truly to improve.
- Notes:
- On front cover: "A report of the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Management."
- "September 1998."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-71).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0815749155
- OCLC:
- 39864096
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