Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel; Pierre, Jon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136749506
• Artikelnr.: 38404490

Autorenporträt

Jon Pierre is Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh. He held a Chair in Politics at the University of Strathclyde between 1996 and 1999 and has held visiting scholarships or professorships in Hong Kong, Canberra, Montevideo and Nuffield College. In 2006, the Swedish Science Council awarded him a "long-term support for leading scholars". He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of twenty books including (ed) Debating Governance (Oxford University Press), Governance, Politics and the State (with B. Guy Peters, Palgrave, 2000), Handbook of Public Administration (Sage, 2003) and Handbook of Public Policy (Sage, 2006 (both co-edited with B. Guy Peters). He has published more than 70 chapters in edited volumes and 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals, mainly in the field of public administration and urban politics. He is a former editor of Governance and serves on eight journal editorial boards. Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans is Professor of Political Science at the interdisciplinary Institute of Political Studies (IEP) of Toulouse (south-west of France, second French city as regards the academia and number of students). In Toulouse, he has several managerial and research responsibilities: he is director of the research centre of the Institute, the Laboratory of the Social Sciences of Polity (LaSSP), director of the Master "Consultancy-Expertise-Public Action", chairman of the permanent Academic Recruitment Board of the Institute, member of the Board of Governors, of the Scientific Council, of the Council of the Doctoral School, etc.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Assessing Administrative Reforms Jon Pierre and
Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans Part 1: Administrative Reforms in Practice:
Trajectories, Strategies, Acclimatizations 2. NPM Reforms Legacy: A Common
Praxeologic, a Variety of Acclimatizations, a Renewed Bureaucratization
Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans 3. Has NPM a Trust Problem? Public Sector
Incentive Systems in Japan, Korea, Spain, and Sweden Carl Dahlström and
Victor Lapuente 4. Administrative Reforms and the Complexification of
Competencies Requested from Civil Servants: The Case of Norway Tom
Christensen and Per Laegreid 5. The Un-Politics of New Public Management in
Ireland Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCarthaigh 6. Shifting Discourses,
Steady Learning and Sedimentation: The German Reform Trajectory in the Long
Run Julia Fleischer and Werner Jann 7. The Rise of Managerialism as a
Result of Bureaucratic Strategies and Power Games: The case of France
Julie Gervais 8. Beyond the Reforms: Changing Civil Service Leadership in
the European Commission Anchrit Wille Part 2: The Unanticipated Impact of
Administrative Reforms: A Challenge to Democracy? 9. Bureaucracy and
Democracy: Towards Result-Based Legitimacy? B. Guy Peters 10. Contending
Models of Administrative Reform: The New Public Management Versus the New
Weberianism Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein 11. Markets, Morality and
Democratic Governance: Insights from the UK Matthew Flinders 12. Reforming
the State in France: From Public Service to Public Management? Alistair
Cole 13. Assessing the Impact of Administrative Reforms on Democratic
Governance: The Case of Accountability in Switzerland Aurélien Buffat and
Basile Larpin 14. Administrative Reform and the Quality of Governance in
Post-Socialist States: The Case of Slovenia Simona Kustec-Lipicer and
Polona Kovac 15. Transforming Governance through Administrative Reforms in
Emerging Countries: Mexico, South Korea and Turkey Gül Sosay 16. Conclusion
Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans and Jon Pierre