New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgements xii
• Current Trends and Future Prospects of Public Management 1
• References 3
• Part I - The New Public Management in Context 5
• Chapter 1 - The New Public Management in Context 7
• Chapter 2 - Origins of the New Public Management 15
• Chapter 3 - New Public Management 34
• References 54
• Chapter 4 - Explaining the New Public Management 57
• Chapter 5 - The New Public Management, Modernization and Institutional Change 77
• Notes 90
• Part II - The New Public Management in Action 93
• Chapter 6 - Public Service Professionals and the New Public Management 95
• Notes 106

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgements xii
• Current Trends and Future Prospects of Public Management 1
• References 3
• Part I - The New Public Management in Context 5
• Chapter 1 - The New Public Management in Context 7
• Chapter 2 - Origins of the New Public Management 15
• Chapter 3 - New Public Management 34
• References 54
• Chapter 4 - Explaining the New Public Management 57
• Chapter 5 - The New Public Management, Modernization and Institutional Change 77
• Notes 90
• Part II - The New Public Management in Action 93
• Chapter 6 - Public Service Professionals and the New Public Management 95
• Notes 106
• Chapter 7 - The New Public Management and Social Exclusion 109
• Chapter 8 - Best Value 129
• Chapter 9 - New Public Management and Social Justice 141
• Part III - The New Public Management in Comparative Context 161
• Chapter 10 - The New Public Management 163
• Chapter 11 - New Public Management, North American Style 181
• References 194
• Chapter 12 - Australia, the New Public Management and the New Millennium 195
• Chapter 13 - The New Public Management 210
• Chapter 14 - New Public Management in Developing Countries 227
• Chapter 15 - The Politics of New Public Management 243
• Bibliography 270
• Chapter 16 - The New Public Management in International Perspective 274
• Part IV - Researching the New Public Management 293
• Chapter 17 - The New Public Management 295
• Chapter 18 - Organizational Research and the New Public Management 311
• Chapter 19 - Researching the New Public Management 324
• Part V - Conclusions 339
• Chapter 20 - The Sustainability of the New Public Management in the Uk 341
• References 353
• Index 354