Transcending new public management : the transformation of public sector reforms / edited by Tom Christensen, Per Lgreid.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Christensen, Tom, 1949-

Lgreid, Per.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Public administration--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following on from the success of the editors' previous book, New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which examined the public reform process up to the end of the last decade, this new volume draws on the previous knowledge both theoretically and empirically. It examines and debates the post-new public management reform development in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. The ideal follow-up to the previous volume, this book includes many of the same contributors in addition to some fresh voices, and is a must for anyone looking for an integrated framework of analysis. Comprehensive and analytical, it is an important contribution to the study of public administration and particularly to the reform of public management.

Contents:

1. Introduction : theoretical approach and research questions / Tom Christensen and Per Lgreid

2. Still fragmented government or reassertion of the centre? / Tom Christensen, Amund Lie and Per Lgreid

3. Reform design and performance in Australia and New Zealand / John Halligan

4. Types of state organizations : arguments, doctrines and changes beyond new public management / Paul G. Roness

5. Convergence and standardization in telecommunications regulation : trajectories of change and reform in the Asian Pacific regulatory state / Martin Painter

6. Organizing immigration : a comparison of New Zealand and Norway / Tom Christensen, Per Lgreid and Richard Norman

7. Central banking reform across the world : only by night are all cats / Grey Martin Marcussen

8. Quests for transparency : signs of a new institutional era in the health care field / Maria Blomgren and Kerstin Sahlin

9. Public-private partnerships : a comparative perspective on Victoria and Denmark / Carsten Greve and Graeme Hodge

10. (The difficult art of) outsourcing welfare services : experiences from Sweden and New Zealand / Anders Forssell and Lars Noren

11. New public management and the ghost of Max Weber : exorcized or still haunting? / Robert Gregory.

Notes:

First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-277) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-351-87811-5

1-138-46347-7

1-315-23579-X

1-281-10392-6

9786611103927

0-7546-8393-1

9781315235790

OCLC:

290510042