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Learning from International Public Management Reform (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Learning from International Public Management Reform (Hardcover, 1st ed)
Series: Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management
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Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient,
ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic,
overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs,
secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens,
self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity and quality
of services desired by the taxpaying public. Fiscal stress has
plagued many governments, increasing the cry for less costly or
just less government. Critics have exerted sustained pressure on
politicians and public managers for transformational reform.
Recommendations for change have included application of market and
economic logic and private sector management methods to government.
Managerial reform has been promoted on grounds that the public
sector is organized and functions on many of the wrong principles
and needs reinvention and renewal. Government reforms in response
to reformist pressures have included restraint of spending and tax
cuts, sales of public assets, privatization and contracting-out of
services, increased performance measurement and auditing, output
and outcomes based budgeting, and new accounting and reporting
methods. Reform has been accompanied by promises of smaller, less
interventionist and more decentralized government, improved
efficiency and effectiveness, greater responsiveness and
accountability to citizens, increased choice between public and
private providers of services, a more 'entrepreneurial' public
sector capable of cooperating with business. While it is apparent
why politicians and elected officials often support new managerial
methods, observers wonder whether the promises of reform can be
delivered upon to provide benefits depicted so attractively.
Dialogue on this question is active among public management
scholars, practitioners, politicians, citizen groups and the media.
Substantial elements of this dialogue are represented in this book.
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