Unbundled Government - A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation (Hardcover, New)

Contents:
Part One: Setting the Scene
1. Managers managing? The international trend towards agencies, quangos and contratualization Colin Talbot
2. Patterns of structural change Geert Bouckaert and Guy B. Peters
Part Two: Agencies, Quangos and Contracts in the Heartlands of the New Public Management
3. Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps' Francesca Gains
4. Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK Oliver James
5. Contracting and accountability: a model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience Jocelyn Johnston and Barbara Romzek
6. Contractualism and performance measurement in Australia Linda McGuire
7. The agency concept in North America: failure, adaptation and incremental change Andrew Graham and Alasdair Roberts
Part Three: Autonomization in Continental Europe and Japan
8. Quangos in Dutch government Sandra van Thiel
9. Lost in translation? Shifting interpretations of the concept of 'agency': the Dutch case Amanda Smullen
10. Central agencies in Sweden: a report from Utopia Jon Pierre
11. Agencification in Japan Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Part Four: Autonomization in the Developing and Transitional Countries
12. New Public management in a developing country: creating executive agencies in Tanzania Janice Caulfield
13. Agencies in Thailand Bidyha Bowornwathana
14. The design, performance and sustainability of semi-autonomous revenue authorities in Africa and Latin America Robert R. Taliercio Jr
15. Castles built on sand? Agencies in Latvia Christopher Pllitt
16. Agencies in Jamaica Colin Talbot
Part Five: Overview
17. Theoretical overview Christopher Pollitt

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	2004
Editors:	Christopher Pollitt • Colin Talbot
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	368
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-31448-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > Public ownership / nationalization
LSN:	0-415-31448-8
Barcode:	9780415314480

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