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
Christopher Pollitt is Emeritus Professor at the Public Governance
Institute, Leuven. Previously he was Editor of Public
Administration and the International Review of Administrative
Sciences. Winner of the 2004 Hans Sigrist International Prize for
his work of comparative government, he has worked in the UK, the
USA, the Netherlands and Belgium. He is the author of more than a
dozen books and well over 60 scientific articles. Christopher
has
undertaken advisory roles for the European Commission, the World
Bank, the OECD and five national governments.
Geert Bouckaert is professor of public management at the KU Leuven
Public Governance Institute. He is currently President of the
International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), after
having served as president of its European Group for Public
Administration (EGPA). He received the Anneliese Maier Research
Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2015. He is the
recipient of several honorary doctorates. His publications are in
the field of reform, performance, financial
management, and trust. He serves in several editorial boards
including JPART, PAR, and PPMR.
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