Beryl A. Radin is a member of the faculty at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. In 2009 she received the H. George Frederickson Award for Lifetime Achievement and Continuous Contributions to Public Management Research from the Public Management Research Association. She is the author of Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values and Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age.

Right on target ... Those of us working on federal systems issues can heartily endorse her view... All reformers should read this book and think deeply about the implications for their ambitious as they prepare to push that rock up the mountain one more time. Publius

• Preface Introduction 1. The Background 2. Public/Private Management Relationships 3. Political Structures Matter 4. Contracting Out: A-76 5. Personnel Policy Reform 6. Reorganization as Reform 7. Budgeting as Reform 8. Reform in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 9. Performance Measurement 10. Living with Contradictions Bibliography About the Author Index

Beryl A. Radin is a member of the faculty at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. In 2009 she received the H. George Frederickson Award for Lifetime Achievement and Continuous Contributions to Public Management Research from the Public Management Research Association. She is the author of Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values and Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age.

Right on target ... Those of us working on federal systems issues can heartily endorse her view... All reformers should read this book and think deeply about the implications for their ambitious as they prepare to push that rock up the mountain one more time. Publius

• Preface Introduction 1. The Background 2. Public/Private Management Relationships 3. Political Structures Matter 4. Contracting Out: A-76 5. Personnel Policy Reform 6. Reorganization as Reform 7. Budgeting as Reform 8. Reform in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 9. Performance Measurement 10. Living with Contradictions Bibliography About the Author Index

Beryl A. Radin is a member of the faculty at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University. In 2009 she received the H. George Frederickson Award for Lifetime Achievement and Continuous Contributions to Public Management Research from the Public Management Research Association. She is the author of Challenging the Performance Movement: Accountability, Complexity, and Democratic Values and Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age.

Right on target ... Those of us working on federal systems issues can heartily endorse her view... All reformers should read this book and think deeply about the implications for their ambitious as they prepare to push that rock up the mountain one more time. Publius

• Preface Introduction 1. The Background 2. Public/Private Management Relationships 3. Political Structures Matter 4. Contracting Out: A-76 5. Personnel Policy Reform 6. Reorganization as Reform 7. Budgeting as Reform 8. Reform in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 9. Performance Measurement 10. Living with Contradictions Bibliography About the Author Index