Comparative administrative change and reform
Subtitle: lessons learned
By: edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham
Contributors: Peters, B. Guy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780773536593; 9780773536609
Description: Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.
Notes: Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ideas in action :; title: why the reality of the administrative reform grinder matters  -- Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre; title: The ideas of reform :; title: reforming governance and accountability.; title: Change and continuity :; title: an institutional approach to institutuions of democratic government  -- Johan P. Olser; title: The ideas of reform :; title: leaders and change.; title: New public leadership for public service reform  -- Geert Bouckaert ;; title: Leaders and leadership in administrative reform  -- Ian Thynne; title: The ideas of reform :; title: management systems and other reformed tools.; title: Simply the best?; title: The international benchmarking of reform and good governance  -- Christopher Pollitt ;; title: Cyber-bureaucracy :; title: if information technology is so central to public administration, why is it so Ghetto-ized?  -- Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts; title: The design of reform :; title: the evolution of policy tools.; title: Reforming management and management sytems :; title: impacts and issues  -- John Halligan; title: The design of reform :; title: western ideas and models in non-western settings.; title: Implementing developed countries' administrative reforms in developing countries :; title: the case of México  -- José Luis Méndez ;; title: Western models and administrative reform in China :; title: pragmatism and the search for modernity  -- John P. Burns ;; title: Bureaucrats, politicians, and the transfer of administrative reform into Thailand  -- Bidhya Bowornwathana; title: Change and reform in a multinational context.; title: Change and reform in the European Union  -- Alberta M. Sbragia; title: Looking back at reform efforts :; title: what worked?; title: Success and failure of reform :; title: taking stock  -- Donald J. Savoie ;; title: Conclusions :; title: the future of public management -- Jon Pierre.