New public management : current trends and future prospects / edited by Kate McLaughlin, Stephen P. Osborne and Ewan Ferlie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McLaughlin, Kate.

Osborne, Stephen P., 1953-

Ferlie, Ewan, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Great Britain.

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The UK has played a pivotal role in the development of New Public Management (NPM). This book offers an original, comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the New Public Management in the UK, and situates these analyses in a broader comparative perspective. Its chapters consider:competing typologies of NPMissues of professionalism within NPMdebates on social exclusion and equitythe role of different research approaches in evaluating NPMthe evolving nature of NPM and impact of modernisationevaluations of NPM in mai

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Current trends and future prospects of public management: a guide; The New Public Management in context; Origins of the New Public Management: an international view from public administration/political science; New Public Management: a discussion with special reference to UK health; Explaining the New Public Management: the importance of context; The New Public Management, modernization and institutional change: disruptions, disjunctures and dilemmas

Public service professionals and the New Public Management: control of the professions in the public servicesThe New Public Management and social exclusion: cause or response?; Best Value: New Public Management or new direction?; New Public Management and social justice: just efficiency or equity as well?; The New Public Management: a perspective from mainland Europe; New Public Management, North American style; Australia, the New Public Management and the new millennium; The New Public Management: a perspective from Africa; New Public Management in developing countries

The politics of New Public Management: some experience from reforms in East AsiaThe New Public Management in international perspective: an analysis of impacts and effects; The New Public Management: an action research approach; Organizational research and the New Public Management: the turn to qualitative methods; Researching the New Public Management: the role of quantitative methods; The sustainability of the New Public Management in the UK; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-54414-6

1-134-54415-4

1-280-11112-7

0-203-99636-4

9780203996362

OCLC:

475943159