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Reshaping the state : New Zealand's bureaucratic revolution

Title
Reshaping the state : New Zealand's bureaucratic revolution / edited by Jonathan Boston [and others].
Publication
Auckland, N.Z. : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors
Boston, Jonathan, 1957-
Description
xvi, 408 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
This book details and analyses public sector reform, carried out by the 4th Labour Government between 1984-1990. Contents: 1. The theoretical underpinnings of Public Sector restructuring in New Zealand 2. State-owned enterprises 3. The State Sector Act 1988 4. Chief executives and the senior executive service 5. Industrial relations and personnel policies under the State Sector Act 6. The changing structure of public expenditure 7. Financial management reform 8. Accounting, auditing, and accountability 9. Reorganizing the machinery of government: objectives and outcomes 10. Devolution and decentralization 11. The management of change: the social and personnel perspective 12. Biculturalism and the public sector 13. Equal employment opportunity and state sector reform 14. Ethos and ethics 15. Conclusion.
Subject
  • Since 1972
  • Administrative agencies > New Zealand > Reorganization
  • Bureaucracy > New Zealand
  • Decentralization in government > New Zealand
  • Administration publique > Nouvelle-Zélande > Réorganisation
  • Bureaucratie > Nouvelle-Zélande
  • Administrative agencies > Reorganization
  • Bureaucracy
  • Decentralization in government
  • Politics and government
  • Öffentlicher Sektor
  • Reform
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Geschichte (1984-1990)
  • New Zealand > Politics and government > 1972-
  • New Zealand > Politics and government
  • Nouvelle-Zélande > Politique et gouvernement
  • Nouvelle-Zélande > Politique gouvernementale
  • Nouvelle-Zélande > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-
  • New Zealand
  • Neuseeland
  • Government Policies
Genre/Form
  • Book
  • Published in New Zealand
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
The theoretical underpinnings of public sector restructuring in New Zealand / Jonathan Boston -- State-owned enterprises / R.C. Mascarenhas -- The state sector act 1988 / Pat Walsh -- Chief executives and the senior executive service / Jonathan Boston -- Industrial relations and personnel policies under the state sector act / Pat Walsh -- The changing structure of public expenditure / Chris Rudd -- Financial management reform / June Pallot -- Accounting, auditing, and accountability / June Pallot -- Reorganizing the machinery of government : objectives and outcomes / Jonathan Boston -- Devolution and decentralization / John Martin -- The management of change : the social and personnel perspective / Paul Lister, Mary-Jane Rivers, and Alastair Wilkinson -- Biculturalism and the public sector / Tom O'Reilly and David Wood -- Equal employment opportunity and state sector reform / Marianne Tremaine -- Ethos and ethics / John Martin.
ISBN
  • 0195582225
  • 9780195582222
LCCN
92147216
OCLC
  • ocm27034930
  • 27034930
  • SCSB-1963628
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library