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Public Management Reform and Innovation : Research, Theory, and Application /

Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced, treatment of public management reform and innovation available. The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors ask...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johnston, Jocelyn M., 1955-, Frederickson, H. George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • I. Theories and Concepts of Reform, Innovation, and Intervention in Public Management: One Hundred Theories of Organizational Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Theoretical Foundations of Policy Intervention
  • Do Goals Help Create Innovative Organizations?
  • Innovation by Legislative, Judicial, and Management Design: Three Arenas of Public Entrepreneurship
  • II. Reengineering, Reform, and Innovation as Design Science: The Roles of Institutions and Political Contexts: Where's the Institution? Neoinstitutionalism and Public Management
  • Assessing Public Management Reform with Internal Labor Market Theory: A Comparative Assessment of Change Implementation
  • Good Budgetary Decision Processes
  • Implementing Mission-Driven, Results-Oriented Budgeting
  • III. The Management of Innovation and Reform: Organizational and Bureaucratic Factors: The Pain of Organizational Change: Managing Reinvention
  • Institutional Paradoxes: Why Welfare Workers Cannot Reform Welfare
  • Contracting In: Can Government Be a Business?
  • IV. Politics, Governance, Reform, and Innovation: Interest Groups in the Rule-Making Process: Who Participates? Whose Voices Get Heard?
  • Dialogue between Advocates and Executive Agencies: New Roles for Public Management
  • Reinventing Government: Lessons from a State Capital
  • Conclusion