Contesting Public Sector Reforms: Critical Perspectives, International Debates - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1403904308 ISBN 13: 9781403904300

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Riassunto

This edited volume provides a critical and international analysis of the public sector through theoretical debates, empirical issues and regional studies. It begins by reassessing the public choice theoretical paradigm, the implications of New Public Management, the current crisis of democracy and ways of mediating market pressures. It then investigates recent developments in ethics, service provision, industrial relations and the nature of work, before examining critical issues in countries and regions from both the developed and developing world, and reflecting on the way forward.

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BRUCE BAKER Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the African Studies Centre at Coventry University, UKPATRICK BOND Political Economist and Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management in Johannesburg, South AfricaROBERT GREGORY Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandJENNY HARROW Professor of Voluntary Sector Management, Cass Business School, City UniversityPAUL HIGGINS Lecturer in Public Sector Management and Employee Relations at Middlesex University Business School, UKJ. ROGERS HOLLINGSWORTH Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Wisconsin, USAJONTHAN LIU Professor of Chinese Management at Middlesex University Business School, UKZSUZSANNA LONTI Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandRONALDO MUNCK Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Globalization and Social Exclusion Unit at the University of Liverpool, UKANIL VERMA Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto, CanadaAXEL VAN DEN BERG Professor of Sociology at McGill University, CanadaMALCOLM WALLIS Professor of Public Administration at the Durban Institute for Technology, South AfricaJANE WANG Senior Administrator for the Study Tours Programme at Middlesex University Business School, UK

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Introduction: Public Sector Management and the Neo-Liberal Hegemony; P.Dibben, I.Roper & G.Wood
PART ONE: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM: THEORETICAL DEBATES
Public Choice, the Public Sector and the Market: The Sound of One Hand Clapping?; A.Van den Berg
New Public Management: Marketization, Managerialism and Consumerism; P.Dibben & P.Higgins
Uneasy Partners: Democratization and New Public Management in Developing Countries; B.Baker
Taming the Market: Co-ordination of Economic Activity at Multiple Spatial Levels; J.Rogers Hollingsworth
PART TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS: ISSUES AND PRACTICES
Ethics and the New Public Management: Challenges and Alternatives; G.Wood
Mechanisms and Values in the Delivery of a Patchwork of Public Services; J.Harrow
Industrial Relations in the Public Sector: Collective Bargaining Reform and the Issue of Convergence; P.James
Managing Quality in Public Services: Some Distinct Implications for the Reorganization of Work; I.Roper
PART THREEE: PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT: REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STUDIES
Canadian Public Management Developments; Z.Lonti & A.Verma
Hollowing and Hardening New Zealand's Homely State; R.Gregory
New Public Management and Europeanization: Convergence or Nestedness?; G.Wood
Recruiting and Training the New Cadre: Reform of the Civil Service in the People's Republic of China; J.Liu & J.Wang
Contradictions Confronting New Public Management in Johannesburg: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Water Commercialization; P.Bond
Latin America: Globalization Democracy and State Reform; R.Munck
Public Administration and the Management of Socio-Economic Development in Developing Countries: Some Trends and Comparisons; M.Wallis
Conclusion: Towards the Revitalization of the Public?; G.Wood & I.Roper

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1403904308
• ISBN 13: 9781403904300
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 290
• Redattore: Dibben Pauline, Wood Geoffrey, Roper Ian