Research Catalog

Title

Public management and administrative reform in Western Europe / edited by Walter J.M. Kickert.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Kickert, Walter J. M. (Walter Julius Michael)
• European Group of Public Administration.

Description

xv, 278 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• This important book presents new work by respected scholars in the field of public administration in Europe, and considers both American and European approaches to public sector management and administrative reform.
• The book begins with introductory chapters examining public management in Europe and the United States and explores the paradoxes that exist in administrative reform. Part two presents a wide range of case studies of European management reforms including the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. It offers a balanced view of the managerial trend which appears to be sweeping across Western Europe. This is achieved by presenting the full spectrum of case studies from success to failure. Balance is created by presenting counter-arguments and criticisms of the prevailing trend of reform. The third part considers management, legal state and democracy.
• Finally, the volume concludes with a North American perspective on the administrative reform in Europe.

Subject

• Administrative agencies > Europe > Management > Congresses
• Executive departments > Europe > Management > Congresses
• Public administration > Europe > Congresses
• Administrative agencies > Management
• Executive departments > Management
• Politics and government
• Public administration
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Management
• Verwaltungsreform
• Öffentlicher Sektor
• Overheidsmanagement
• Bestuurshervormingen
• Europe > Politics and government > Congresses
• Europe
• Westeuropa
• USA

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.
• Kongress.

Note

• Papers from the 1995 annual conference of the European Group of Public Administration.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface / Jacques Ziller -- pt. 1. Introduction: Public Management and Administrative Reform. 1. Introduction / Walter Kickert. 2. The Paradoxes of Administrative Reform / Vincent Wright. 3. Public Management in the United States and Europe / Walter Kickert -- pt. 2. Management Reforms in Western Europe: Successes, Nuances and Failures. 4. Reinventing Whitehall 1979-1995 / Rod Rhodes. 5. 'Neues Steuerungsmodell': Local Reform in Germany / Christoph Reichard. 6. Public Management Reform in Germany: A Revolution without a Theory? / Werner Jann. 7. Administrative Reforms in Austria: Project 'Verwaltungsmanagement' / Franz Strehl. 8. The State of Public Management Reforms in Switzerland / Kuno Schedler.

ISBN

• 1858985536
• 9781858985534

LCCN

96035155

OCLC

• ocm35397753
• 35397753
• SCSB-2112325

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library