Public management
Subtitle: the New Zealand model
By: Jonathan Boston ... [et al.].
Contributors: Boston, Jonathan, 1957-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Auckland; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Administrative agencies -- New Zealand -- Management.; Civil service reform -- New Zealand.; New Zealand -- Politics and government -- 1972-
Description: Many countries have undertaken major programmes or public-sector reform in recent times, and none more extensively than New Zealand. Since the mid-1980s virtually every aspect of New Zealand's public sector has been restructured, giving rise to a new model of public management. Many of the reforms have won domestic and international acclaim; some have also been the subject of considerable controversy.

Public Management: The New Zealand Model describes and critically assesses the features of these reforms. It examines the model's theoretical origins and explores how the new model operates in practice - how its outcomes compare with those intended, and what impact, both positive and negative, it has had on the governance of New Zealand.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-396) and index.