Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid

The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed are: ¢

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 901g
• ISBN-13: 9781409462507
• ISBN-10: 1409462501
• Artikelnr.: 42965385

Autorenporträt

Professor Tom Christensen, University of Oslo, Norway and Professor Per Lÿgreid, University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
I: NPM Processes: Driving Forces
2: Basic NPM Ideas and their Development
3: The Political-Administrative Design of NPM
4: The Relevance of Culture for NPM
5: New Public Organisations: A Revivalist Movement 1
II: Convergence and Divergence among Countries
6: NPM in Anglo-Saxon Countries
7: Public Management Reform in Continental Europe: National Distinctiveness
8: NPM in Scandinavia
9: NPM in Asian Countries
III: Sector Studies
10: Healthcare States and Medical Professions: The Challenges from NPM
11: NPM, Network Governance and the University as a Changing Professional Organization
12: NPM Ideas and Social Welfare Administration
13: Utility Regulation and NPM
IV: NPM Features
14: Structural Devolution to Agencies
15: Managing Performance and Auditing Performance
16: Managerialism and Models of Management
17: Privatization
18: A Transformative Perspective on Public¿Private Partnerships
V: Effects and Implications of NPM
19: NPM and the Search for Efficiency
20: Unions, Corporatist Participation and NPM
21: NPM: Restoring the Public Trust through Creating Distrust?
22: Scientization
23: An Aftermath of NPM: Regained Relevance of Public Values and Public Service Motivation
24: Serving the Public? Users, Consumers and the Limits of NPM
25: Responses to NPM: From Input Democracy to Output Democracy
26: Normativity and NPM: A Need for Some Theoretical Coherence
VI: NPM and Beyond
27: Beyond NPM? Some Development Features
28: Reinventing Weber: The Role of Institutions in Creating Social Trust
29: Public Governance and Public Services: A `Brave New World' or New Wine in Old Bottles? 1