Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-335) and index.

Ideas in action : why the reality of the administrative reform grinder matters / Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre -- The ideas of reform : reforming governance and accountability. Change and continuity : an institutional approach to institutions of democratic government / Johan P. Olser -- The ideas of reform : leaders and change -- New public leadership for public service reform / Geert Bouckaert -- Leaders and leadership in administrative reform / Ian Thynne -- The ideas of reform : management systems and other reformed tools. Simply the best? -- The international benchmarking of reform and good governance / Christopher Pollitt -- Cyber-bureaucracy -- if information technology is so central to public administration, why is it so Ghetto-ized? / Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts -- The design of reform -- the evolution of policy tools -- Reforming management and management sytems -- impacts and issues / John Halligan -- The design of reform : western ideas and models in non-western settings -- Implementing developed countries' administrative reforms in developing countries -- the case of M�exico / Jos�e Luis M�endez -- Western models and administrative reform in China : pragmatism and the search for modernity / John P. Burns -- Bureaucrats, politicians, and the transfer of administrative reform into Thailand / Bidhya Bowornwathana -- Change and reform in a multinational context. Change and reform in the European Union / Alberta M. Sbragia -- Looking back at reform efforts : what worked? Success and failure of reform : taking stock / Donald J. Savoie ; Conclusions : the future of public management / Jon Pierre.

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