Assessing Public Management Reforms (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting changes. Yet some evolutions may occur that actually improve the efficiency level inside public administrations. The book identifies how and why such processes may occur. It explores an innovative approach to the way reform policies inside the public sector are assessed. The opening chapters examine the contributions of different disciplines to the study of change in the public sector, before proposing a framework to better understand management developments. The book then reviews eight crosscutting central government programmes successively launched since the late 1960s, examines how these programmes were designed and constructed, and analyses the ways in which three toolkits are appropriated: dashboards and indicators, cost-benefit analysis, and ex post evaluation. The final chapters examine the links between the development of agencification and the way in which central government proceeds to implement it, and demonstrate why and how the structure of human resources is crucial for initiating change processes. Together, the book proposes lessons for public practitioners as well as for academic purposes.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Understanding Governance
Release date:	February 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Patrick Gibert • Jean-Claude Thoenig
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	218
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-089798-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-089798-2
Barcode:	9783030897987

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