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Comparative administrative change and reform lessons learned / [electronic resource] : edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010. - x, 349 p. : ill.

Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-335) and index.

Ideas in action : why the reality of the administrative reform grinder matters / The ideas of reform : reforming governance and accountability. Change and continuity : an institutional approach to institutions of democratic government / The ideas of reform : leaders and change -- New public leadership for public service reform / Leaders and leadership in administrative reform / The ideas of reform : management systems and other reformed tools. Simply the best? -- The international benchmarking of reform and good governance / Cyber-bureaucracy -- if information technology is so central to public administration, why is it so Ghetto-ized? / The design of reform -- the evolution of policy tools -- Reforming management and management sytems -- impacts and issues / The design of reform : western ideas and models in non-western settings -- Implementing developed countries' administrative reforms in developing countries -- the case of M�exico / Western models and administrative reform in China : pragmatism and the search for modernity / Bureaucrats, politicians, and the transfer of administrative reform into Thailand / Change and reform in a multinational context. Change and reform in the European Union / Looking back at reform efforts : what worked? Success and failure of reform : taking stock / Conclusions : the future of public management / Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre -- Johan P. Olser -- Geert Bouckaert -- Ian Thynne -- Christopher Pollitt -- Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts -- John Halligan -- Jos�e Luis M�endez -- John P. Burns -- Bidhya Bowornwathana -- Alberta M. Sbragia -- Donald J. Savoie ; Jon Pierre.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Administrative agencies--Reorganization.
Civil service reform.
Public administration.
Comparative government.


Electronic books.

JF51 / .C613 2010eb

352.3/67
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