Koen Verhoest, P. Roness, B. Verschuere

Gebundenes Buch

Autonomy and Control of State Agencies

Comparing States and Agencies

Beschreibung

By comparing the autonomy, control and internal management of public organizations, this book show how New Public Management doctrines work out in three small European states with different politico-administrative regimes. Using survey data on 226 state agencies, hypotheses drawing on organization theory and neo-institutional schools are tested.

Autor

KOEN VERHOEST is Assistant Professor and Research Manager at the Public Management Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. PAUL G. RONESS is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. BRAM VERSCHUERE is Lecturer in Public Management at University College Ghent, Belgium.  He previously worked at the Public Management Institute (KU Leuven).    KRISTIN RUBECKSEN is Research Fellow in the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway.   MUIRIS MACCARTHAIGH is Research Officer at the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Public Sector Organizations
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-57765-7
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780230577657
• ISBN-10: 0230577652
• Artikelnr.: 27406428

Rezensionen

"This book is a major contribution to the literature on agencification...holds a place among the most important books to appear on agencification this decade...an important, convincing and valuable book."

- West European Politics