Christensen Tom - The Ashgate research companion to new public management

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

The Companion provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important changes in democratic administrative reform in the post-War era. This will equip scholars, students and policy makers with a solid foundation on which to build assessments of the new approaches to performance management, accountability and flexibility. Well written and presented, the chapters combine sound theoretical insight with useful overviews of national systems. Whether one is an ardent supporter or determined critic of these reforms, the Companion will serve as a starting point for analysis and assessment.

Mark Considine, University of Melbourne, Australia

New Public Management has swept much of the world in the past 20-30 years, a reform movement fed by its adoption by major governments and its promotion by many international agencies. Much has been written about it, puzzling over its origins, the reasons for its appeal and its consequences. This excellent volume presents a comprehensive, systematic and provocative review of how this happened, what it means, and what its effects have been. A must collection for anyone interested in contemporary administrative reform.

Joel D. Aberbach, Center for American Politics and Public Policy, UCLA, USA

If you want to understand how and why the public sector has changed in the last twenty years, and how and why it has resisted or translated change, this is the definitive account to read. The leading international researches in the field do not only tell what happened, but offer realistic and compelling theoretical explanations.

Werner Jann, University of Potsdam, Germany

The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.

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Edited by

TOM CHRISTENSEN
University of Oslo, Norway

PER LGREID
University of Bergen, Norway

ASHGATE

Tom Christensen and Per Lgreid 2011

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

The Ashgate research companion to new public management.
1. Public administration. 2. Public administration-
Cross-cultural studies. 3. Civil service reform. 4. Civil service reform--Cross-cultural studies.
I. Research companion to new public management II. Christensen, Tom, 1949- III. Lgreid, Per.
351-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Ashgate research companion to new public management / [edited] by Tom Christensen and Per Lgreid.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7806-9 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9570-7 (ebook) 1. Public administration. I. Christensen, Tom, 1949- II. Lgreid, Per.

JF1351.A84 2010
351--dc22

2010028235

ISBN 978 0 7546 7806 9 (hbk)
ISBN 978 0 7546 9570 7 (ebk)
ISBN 9781409489092 (ebk-ePUB)

Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, UK

Tom Christensen and Per Lgreid

Jonathan Boston

Peter Aucoin

Koen Verhoest

Nils Brunsson

John Halligan

Walter J.M. Kickert

Hanne Foss Hansen

Anthony B.L. Cheung

Haldor Byrkjeflot

Ivar Bleiklie, Jrgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori and Christine Musselin

Richard Norman

Ian Bartle

Oliver James and Sandra van Thiel

Vital Put and Geert Bouckaert

Martin Painter

Thomas Pallesen

Carsten Greve and Graeme Hodge

Rhys Andrews

Paul G. Roness

Steven Van de Walle

Martin Marcussen

Torben Beck Jrgensen and Lotte Bgh Andersen

Janet Newman

B. Guy Peters

Robert Gregory

Tom Christensen and Per Lgreid

Jon Pierre and Bo Rothstein

Stephen P. Osborne

Lotte Bgh Andersen, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Rhys Andrews, Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff Business School, UK.

Peter Aucoin, Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Ian Bartle, Research Fellow, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ivar Bleiklie, Professor, University of Bergen, Norway.

Jonathan Boston, Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Geert Bouckaert, Professor, Katholieke University Leuven, Belgium.

Nils Brunsson, Professor of Management, Uppsala University, Sweden..

Haldor Byrkjeflot, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bergen, Norway.

Anthony B.L. Cheung, Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

Tom Christensen, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway.

Jrgen Enders, Professor, University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Robert Gregory, Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Adjunct Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Carsten Greve, Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.