Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: de Walle, Steven van; Groeneveld, Sandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aimed at academics, researchers and advanced students; this edited collection brings together many of the most eminent academics in the area of Public Policy and Management seeking to link to theory in part one and insights into specific thematic areas in part two, offering readers a display of theoretical perspectives to look at public sector reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317500117
• Artikelnr.: 45257582

Autorenporträt

Steven Van de Walle is Research Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Professor of Public Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Sandra Groeneveld is Professor of Public Management at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform
Steven Van de Walle and Sandra Groeneveld
Part 1: Perspectives on Public Sector Reform
2. An Institutional Perspective
Johan P. Olsen
3. A Transformative Perspective
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
4. A Principal-Agent Perspective
Sandra Van Thiel
5. An Innovation Perspective
Victor Bekkers and Lars Tummers
6. A Change Management Perspective
Joris van der Voet, Ben S. Kuipers and Sandra Groeneveld
7. A Cultural Theory Perspective
Christopher Hood
8. An Interpretive Perspective
R.A.W. Rhodes
Part 2: Objects of Reform
9. Reforming Organizational Structures
Steven Van de Walle
10. Bureaucrats and Politicians: Reform Begets Reform
B. Guy Peters
11. The Shift toward Network Governance: Drivers, Characteristics and
Manifestations
Erik-Hans Klijn and Joop Koppenjan
12. Management of Human Resources: Trends and Variation
Sandra Groeneveld and Bram Steijn
13. Public Management Reform and Public Professionalism
Mirko Noordegraaf
14. Recent Shifts in Public Financial Management
Tiina Randma and Geert Bouckaert
Part 3: Studying and Practicing Reform
15. Public Sector Reform amidst Societal and Administrative Shifts
Kim Putters
16. Two Varieties of Administrative Reform: US vs. Europe
Richard Stillman
17. Becoming a Student of Reform
Frans-Bauke van der Meer, Christoph Reichard and Arthur Ringeling