Managing the public sector
Subtitle: a comparative analysis of the United Kingdom and the United States
By: Andrew Massey.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Administrative agencies -- Great Britain -- Management.; Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.; Public administration.
Description: This major book reviews and analyses the changes that have taken place in public administration in Britain and North America over the last ten years and which will continue to have a profound impact on central and local bureaucracies well into the next century. Managing the Public Sector provides a critical introduction which successfully combines a review of the literature with original research. It relates theory to practice and highlights the problem of implementation. It covers all the major issues including privatisation, and the importance of the business sector both as a partner and a powerful lobby for efforts to use market mechanisms to devolve power.

This thoroughly modern, up-to-date book, will be essential reading for all courses on public administration and policy analysis and the management of the public sector.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 202-216.
Includes index.