Mention the words `public sector reform' and many listeners will take it for granted that you are talking about the new public management. Administrative reform is nowadays easily equated with the reduction of centralized procedural rules, an emphasis on `outputs', the separation of purchaser and pr
The state of public management
โ Scribed by Fred Thompson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-8739
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Research, Theory, and Application, edited by George Frederickson and Jocelyn Johnston (in press)
; the fourth, at the University of Georgia, will take place about the time this review appears in print.
Public Management: The State of the Art was primarily concerned with defining public management scholarship and how it ought to be done. Its authors argued that public management scholarship ought not only be practical, but also conform to the canons of social science. Larry Lynn's article in that volume was especially eloquent about the dangers
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