Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 300 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781839107498
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1839107499
Content:
"This critical book focuses on two dominant reform agendas - managerialism and politicisation - to examine the condition of Anglophone countries after 40 years of reform to public sector management and governance. Comparing four countries using the Westminster system - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom - John Halligan explores the changes resulting from distinctive reform agendas, exposing performance shortfalls and unintended consequences, such as bureaucratisation. Offering a broad overview of the implementation and outcomes of key administrative developments, Halligan unpacks those traditions and conventions of governance in Anglophone countries that have been disrupted by unrestrained political executives, producing dramatic imbalances in management and governance systems. Judicious and incisive, this book will be crucial reading to postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of public policy seeking an in-depth understanding of both historic and contemporary reforms to public management and governance. Halligan's comparative approach to public management systems will also benefit government practitioners and specialists working closely with governments."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-289) and index
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Reforming Anglophone public management and governance -- Administrative tradition and Westminster in reform-era governance -- Politicising the executive branch: changing roles, resources, relationships -- Ministers and mandarins under political management -- Management dilemmas -- Contradictions in implementing performance management -- Management and bureaucracy in a political milieu -- Coordination and collaboration -- Long-term reform and public management systems -- Postscript: directions for change -- Appendix 1. -- Reform programmes and judgements in the 2010s -- Appendix 2. -- Country chronologies -- Appendix 3. -- Dynamic of change: centring and decentring.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848446434
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1848446438
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781848446434
Language:
English
