The study of public management in Europe and the US
Subtitle: a competitive analysis of national distinctiveness
By: edited by Walter Kickert.
Contributors: Kickert, Walter J. M.
Series: Routledge studies in public management -- 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415443869; 9780203936177
Subjects: Public administration -- Europe; Public administration -- United States; Comparative government; Europe -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Distinctiveness in the study of public management in Europe : an introduction / Walter Kickert; title: The study of public management in France : la spécificité du modèle français d'administration / Annie Bartoli; title: The study of public management in Germany : poorly institutionalised and fragmented / Christoph Reichard; title: The study of public management in Great Britain : public service delivery and its management / Stephen Osborne and Kate McLaughlin; title: The study of public management in Norway, combination of organisation theory and political science / Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid; title: The study of public management in the Netherlands, managing complex networks and public governance / Walter Kickert; title: The study of public management in Switzerland : wirkungsorientierten verwaltungsführung / Kuno Schedler; title: The study of public management in Italy : management and the dominance of public law / Marco Meneguzzo; title: The study of public management in Spain : an interdisciplinary and ill-defined terrain / Xavier Ballart; title: The study of public management in Hungary : management and the transition to democratic rechtsstaat / Gyorgy Hajnal and Gyorgy Jenei; title: The study of public management in the United States : management in the new world and a reflection on Europe / Lawrence Lynn.