Public Sector Reform

'This is a very impressive and extremely comprehensive collection. The range is unique: it provides an account of public sector reform from both a historical and global perspective. A must have resource for any institution which teaches and researches in the fields of public administration and public management.'

Professor D W Parsons Queen Mary, University of London.

"Public Sector Reform represents significant contribution to public administration scholarship edited by Andrew Massey. This four-volume set offers an excellent overview and an up-to-date intellectual guide to the complex and often changing field of public administration. It is comprehensive and balanced and should be read by anyone wanting to understand the field of public administration around the world. This set is particularly relevant for students, researchers and public administrators around the world. Read and learn."

Pan Suk Kim, President, International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and Vice Chair, UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (UNCEPA)

Andrew Massey is currently Professor of Government and Academic Director of the International School for Government, Kings College London. He has worked in a range of areas including British, European, and US policy and politics. Andrew's main areas of research include comparative public policy, public administration and issues around the reform and modernization of government and governance at all levels.

VOLUME ONE: THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF REFORM American versus European Public Administration - Richard Stillman Does Public Administration Make the Modern State, or Does the State Make Public Administration? One-Way, Two-Way or Dead-End Street - R.A.W. Rhodes The British influence on American Public Administration America's Part in World Reconstruction ? - Henry A. Wallace Alexis de Tocqueville and Public Administration ? - Louis Smith China's Imperial Bureaucracy - Lawrence Herson Its Direction and Control Weber, Wilson and Hegel - Fritz Sager and Christian Rosser Theories of Modern Bureaucracy The Proverbs of Administration - Herbert Simon Public Administration and Business Management ? - L. Urwick The Administration of Nationalized Industries in Britain - William Robson The United Nations - Walter Laves Re-Organizing the World's Governmental Institutions ? Japanese Administration - Milton Esman A Comparative View The Administrative Problems of a New State-Israel 1948-51 - Edwin Samuel The Administrative State Revisited - Dwight Waldo The Setting of Canadian Public Administration ? - Donald Gow Play It again, Sam; It's Still not Right - Patricia Ingraham Searching for the Right Notes in Administrative Reform Critical Success Factors in Public Management Reform - Roger Levy The Case of the European Commission From King to Court Jester? Weber's Fall from Grace in Organizational Theory - Michael Lounsbury and Edward Carberry Postmodern Public Administration Theory - Konstantinos Papadoulis From Weber to the Present Day and back again? Is American Public Administration Detached from Historical Context? - Jos C.N. Raadschelders On Bureaucratic Centre-Formation in Government Institutions - Jarle Trondal Lessons from the European Commission VOLUME TWO: MANAGEMENT AND POST-NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: REFORM IN A TIME OF CHANGE A Public Management for All Seasons? - Christopher Hood Anti-Statist Reforms and New Administrative Directions - Christopher Pollitt Public Administration in the United Kingdom? ? The Third Sector and Domestic Missions ? - Amitai Etzioni Better Regulation in Europe - Claudio Radaelli and A.C.M Meuwese Between Public Management and Regulatory Reform Control, Bargains and Cheating - Christopher Hood The Politics of Public-Service Reform The Hollowing out of the State - R.A.W. Rhodes The Changing Nature of the Public Service in Britain The Middle Aging of New Public Management - Christopher Hood and Guy Peters Into the Age of Paradox? Bureaucracies Remember, Post-Bureaucratic Organizations Forget? - Christopher Pollitt Strategies for Public Service Turnaround - George Boyne Lessons from the Private Sector? International versus Domestic Explanations of Administrative Reforms - Seriye Sezen The Case of Turkey Re-Integrating Government in Third-Generation Reforms of Australia and New Zealand - John Halligan Contextualizing the Meaning of Public Management Reforms - Taco Brandsen and Sunhyuk Kim A Comparison of The Netherlands and South Korea Global Ideas and Modern Public Sector Reforms - Tom Christensen A Theoretical Elaboration and Empirical Discussion of a Neo-Institutional Theory Informatization and New Public Management - Christine Bellamy and John Taylor An Alternative Agenda for Public Administration Governing Alone and with Partners - John Bumgarner and Chad B. Newswander Presidential Governance in a Post-NPM Environment Global Crises, American Public Administration and the 'New Interventionism' Revisited - Robert Durant The Future of Public Administration - Ali Farazmand Challenges and Opportunities - A Critical Perspective Is the New Public Management a Paradigm? Does it Matter? - James Iain Gow and Caroline Dufour The Proverbs of New Public Management - Kenneth J. Meier and La