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This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and
agencification of public sector organizations across Europe,
Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The central argument of the book
is that regulation and agencification occur and perform in tandem.
Comparative analysis on the processes, effects and implications of
regulatory reform and the establishment of semi-independent
agencies are undertaken, and the practice of trade-offs between
political control and agency autonomy is explored. The contributors
also discuss the challenges of fragmentation, coordination,
'joined-up' government and other government initiatives in the
aftermath of the New Public Management movement and its focus on
agencification. Finally, the complexity of
deregulation/re-regulation, new emergent forms of regulation,
control and auditing as well as reassertion of the centre are
examined. Until now, there has been little attempt to link the
study on regulation and regulatory reforms with that of autonomous
central agencies. In this book the two fields are brought together.
Autonomy and Regulation will find its audience amongst scholars and
researchers working in the areas of political science, public
administration and public management, organization theory,
institutional analyses and comparative administration. It will also
appeal to scholars and those directly involved in public sector and
regulatory reforms including politicians and managers.
This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use
reputation management in relation to internal and external
challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social
embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and
international markets of students, researchers and research
projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize
and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data
from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used
and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive
data from US universities to show how their internal organization
structure is developing over time, related to three types of
units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and
roles.
Public-sector organizations are fundamentally different from their
private-sector counterparts. They are part of the society's
political organizations and are major political actors. They are
multifunctional, follow a political leadership and the majority do
not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform,
reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book
offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public-sector
organization that recognizes its unique values, interests,
knowledge and power base. Drawing on both instrumental and
institutional perspectives within organization theory, as well as
democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making, the
book addresses five central aspects of the public-sector
organization: goals, values and motivation leadership and steering
reform and change effects, learning and implications understanding
and design The book challenges conventional economic analysis of
the public sector, arguing instead for a political-democratic
approach and a new prescriptive organization theory. A rich
resource of both theory and practice, Organization Theory and the
Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth is essential reading
for anybody studying the public sector. This second edition of the
book contains a range of new and updated themes, examples and
references.
Following on from the success of the editors previous book, New
Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice, which
examined the public reform process up to the end of the last
decade, this new volume draws on this previous knowledge both
theoretically and empirically. It includes and contrasts with the
post-new public management reform development in Denmark, Norway
and Sweden and with Australia and New Zealand. In addition to new
contributing authors, many of the contributors to the first volume
also appear in this volume making it an ideal follow up and a must
for courses and libraries that are currently using the earlier
book. This book is an important contribution to the study of public
administration and particularly to the reform of public management.
Comprehensive and analytical, this volume provides an integrating
framework for analysis.
This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review
of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM)
reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in
contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion
to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date
analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This
volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters
divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging
across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public
Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed
are: c
Public-sector organizations are fundamentally different from their
private-sector counterparts. They are part of the society's
political organizations and are major political actors. They are
multifunctional, follow a political leadership and the majority do
not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform,
reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book
offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public-sector
organization that recognizes its unique values, interests,
knowledge and power base. Drawing on both instrumental and
institutional perspectives within organization theory, as well as
democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making, the
book addresses five central aspects of the public-sector
organization: goals, values and motivation leadership and steering
reform and change effects, learning and implications understanding
and design The book challenges conventional economic analysis of
the public sector, arguing instead for a political-democratic
approach and a new prescriptive organization theory. A rich
resource of both theory and practice, Organization Theory and the
Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth is essential reading
for anybody studying the public sector. This second edition of the
book contains a range of new and updated themes, examples and
references.
This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review
of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM)
reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in
contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion
to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date
analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This
volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters
divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging
across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public
Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed
are: c
There is growing concern that welfare states are inefficient,
unsustainable and lack popular support. New Public Management
reforms affected the balance between managerial and political
accountability and disrupted administrative, legal, professional
and social accountability, causing confusion as to whom public
organizations are really accountable. The Routledge Handbook to
Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe assesses
multi-dimensional accountability relations in depth, addressing the
dynamic between accountability and reforms. Analyzing how welfare
state reforms oriented towards agencification, managerialism and
marketization affected existing relationships in services
traditionally provided by public institutions, the theoretically
informed, empirical chapters provide specific examples of their
effect on accountability. Expert contributors explore the
relationship between accountability and performance and the impact
of reforms on political, administrative, managerial, legal,
professional and social accountability. The role of specific
actors, such as the media and citizens, on the accountability
process addressing issues of blame avoidance, reputation and
autonomous agencies is discussed. Comparative chapters across time,
countries, administrative levels and policy areas are included,
along with discussions linking accountability with concepts like
legitimacy, democracy, coordination and performance. This handbook
will be an essential reference tool to those studying European
politics and public policy.
This book discusses how modern universities increasingly use
reputation management in relation to internal and external
challenges. Universities are increasingly characterized by social
embeddedness, relating to many external stakeholders and
international markets of students, researchers and research
projects. This implies global pressure to standardize, formalize
and rationalize their internal organization. The book uses data
from China, Norway and US to show how reputation symbols are used
and balanced, based on their web pages. Further, it uses extensive
data from US universities to show how their internal organization
structure is developing over time, related to three types of
units/positions - development, diversity and legal offices and
roles.
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