Reasserting the Public in Public Services (eBook, ePUB)

New Public Management Reforms
Redaktion: Ramesh, M.; Wu, Xun; Araral, Eduardo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This landmark volume brings together leading social scientists including B Guy Peters, Anthony Cheung and Jon Pierre to systematically discuss emerging patterns of the reassertion of the state in the delivery of essential public services. Its coverage includes education, health care, transport and water in Asian and western countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135168223
• Artikelnr.: 43072078

Autorenporträt

M. Ramesh is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia; Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia and co-author of Studying Public Policy. Eduardo Araral and Xun Wu are faculty members at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Reasserting the Role of the State in Public Services 2.
The Role of the State in Governing: Governance and Metagovernance 3.
Reversing Privatization, Rebalancing Government Reform: Markets,
Deliberation and Planning 4. Why Legality cannot be Contracted Out:
Exploring the Limits of New Public Management 5. How Far Has Market
Orientation Penetrated Public Organisations? An Empirical Test On Customer
Satisfaction 6. Repositioning the State and the Public Sector Reform
Agenda: The Case of Hong Kong 7. Reassertions of the State in Viet Nam's
Health Sector 8. Reasserting the Role of the State in the Healthcare
Sector: Lessons from Asia 9. Reasserting the Public in Public Service
Delivery: The De-privatization and De-marketization of Education in China
10. Planning For Power: Lessons from Three Generations of Brazilian
Electricity Reforms 11. Public Planning with Business Delivery of Urban
Public Transport 12. The Fiscal and Efficiency Hypothesis of Water
Utilities Privatization: A Review of the Evidence 13. Conclusion:
Contradictions, Contingencies and the Terrain Ahead