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Title

Comparative administrative change and reform : lessons learned / edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Ingraham, Patricia W.
• Peters, B. Guy
• Pierre, Jon.

Description

x, 349 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.

Subject

• Administration publique > Réorganisation
• Administration publique
• Administrative agencies > Reorganization
• Civil service reform
• Comparative government
• Fonction publique > Réforme
• Institutions politiques comparées
• Public administration

Genre/Form

Festschriften.

Note

• Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. [289]-335.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ideas in action : why the reality of the administrative reform grinder matters / Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre -- The ideas of reform : reforming governance and accountability. Change and continuity : an institutional approach to institutuions of democratic government / Johan P. Olser -- The ideas of reform : leaders and change. New public leadership for public service reform / Geert Bouckaert ; Leaders and leadership in administrative reform / Ian Thynne -- The ideas of reform : management systems and other reformed tools. Simply the best? The international benchmarking of reform and good governance / Christopher Pollitt ; Cyber-bureaucracy : if information technology is so central to public administration, why is it so Ghetto-ized? / Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts -- The design of reform : the evolution of policy tools. Reforming management and management sytems : impacts and issues / John Halligan -- The design of reform : western ideas and models in non-western settings. Implementing developed countries' administrative reforms in developing countries : the case of México / José Luis Méndez ; Western models and administrative reform in China : pragmatism and the search for modernity / John P. Burns ; Bureaucrats, politicians, and the transfer of administrative reform into Thailand / Bidhya Bowornwathana -- Change and reform in a multinational context. Change and reform in the European Union / Alberta M. Sbragia -- Looking back at reform efforts : what worked? Success and failure of reform : taking stock / Donald J. Savoie ; Conclusions : the future of public management / Jon Pierre.

ISBN

• 9780773536593 (bound)
• 0773536590 (bound)
• 9780773536609 (pbk.)
• 0773536604 (pbk.)

OCLC

458726580

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library