Transcending new public management: the transformation of public sector reforms /
Christensen, Tom (Ed.)
Transcending new public management: the transformation of public sector reforms / edited by Tom Christensen, and Per Laegreid. - Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. - vi, 288 pages; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.[245]-277) and indexes.
Introduction - Theoretical Approach and Research Questions -- Still Fragmented Government or Reassertion of the Centre? -- Reform Design and Performance in Australia and New Zealand -- Types of State Organizations: Arguments, Doctrines and Challenges Beyond New Public Management -- Convergence and Standardization in Telecommunications Regulation: Trajectories of Change and Reform in the Asian Pacific Regulatory State -- Organizing Immigration - a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway -- Central Banking Reform Across the World: Only by Night Are All Cats Grey -- Quests for Transparency: Sign of a New Institutional Era in the Health Care Field -- Public-Private Partnerships: A Comparative Perspective on Victoria and Denmark -- The Difficult Art of) Outsourcing Welfare Services: Experiences from Sweden and New Zealand -- New Public Management and the Ghost of Max Weber: Exorcized or Still Haunting?
9780754671176
Institutional Fund
Public administration.
Public administration--Case studies.
Transcending new public management: the transformation of public sector reforms / edited by Tom Christensen, and Per Laegreid. - Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. - vi, 288 pages; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.[245]-277) and indexes.
Introduction - Theoretical Approach and Research Questions -- Still Fragmented Government or Reassertion of the Centre? -- Reform Design and Performance in Australia and New Zealand -- Types of State Organizations: Arguments, Doctrines and Challenges Beyond New Public Management -- Convergence and Standardization in Telecommunications Regulation: Trajectories of Change and Reform in the Asian Pacific Regulatory State -- Organizing Immigration - a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway -- Central Banking Reform Across the World: Only by Night Are All Cats Grey -- Quests for Transparency: Sign of a New Institutional Era in the Health Care Field -- Public-Private Partnerships: A Comparative Perspective on Victoria and Denmark -- The Difficult Art of) Outsourcing Welfare Services: Experiences from Sweden and New Zealand -- New Public Management and the Ghost of Max Weber: Exorcized or Still Haunting?
9780754671176
Institutional Fund
Public administration.
Public administration--Case studies.