Strategies for public management reform

This book is unique in that it explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is represented in the book examine seven strategies for public management reform: (1) increases in accountability, (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and respons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Lawrence
Other Authors: Schedler, Kuno, Mussari, Riccardo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. Emerald 2004
Series:Research in public policy analysis and management
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Collection: Emerald Business, Management and Economics eBook Collection Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Management control reform in the public sector : contrasting the USA and Italy / Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari
  • Political corruption : establishing the parameters / Peter deLeon, Mark T. Green
  • Supply-side control of corruption : the U.S. foreign corrupt practices act and the OECD convention / Masako N. Darrough
  • Coping with corruption in Albanian public administration and business / Denita Cepiku
  • Reducing corruption in post-communist countries / Alexander Kotchegura
  • A conceptual framework and methodological guide for research on public management policy change in the Latin American region / Michael Barzelay, Francisco Gaetani, Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde, Guillermo Cejudo
  • Developing performance indicators and measurement systems in public institutions / Kuno Schedler
  • Evaluation of new public management reforms in Switzerland : empirical results and reflections on methodology / Stefan Rieder, Luzia Lehmann
  • Measuring and managing for performance : lessons from Australia / Bill Ryan
  • Assessing public management reform strategy in an international context / Lawrence R. Jones, Donald F. Kettl
  • Assessment of public management reform and strategy / Kuno Schedler, Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari
  • Rethinking accountability in education : how should who hold whom accountable for what? / Robert D. Behn
  • Development of contracting in infrastructure investment in the U.K. : the private finance initiative in the national health service / Jane Broadbent, Jas Gill, Richard Laughlin
  • Stakeholder theory, partnerships and alliances in the health care sector of the U.K. and Scotland / Alexander Murdock
  • Strategies for health care reform implementation in Southern Italy / Marco Meneguzzo, Valentina Mele, Angelo Tanese
  • Managing the e-government organization / Kuno Schedler, Bernhard Schmidt
  • Reform of public management through ICT : interface, accountability and transparency / Hiroko Kudo
  • Risk, reform and organizational culture : the case of IRS tax systems modernization / Barry Bozeman