03298nam a2200421 a 4500 ebr10578030 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100810s2010 quca sb 011 0 eng d 2010481902 0773536590 (bound) 9780773536609 (pbk.) 0773536604 (pbk.) 9780773536593 9780773583849 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)770372773 JF51 .C613 2010eb 352.3/67 22 Comparative administrative change and reform [electronic resource] : lessons learned / edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010. x, 349 p. : ill. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Administrative agencies Reorganization. Civil service reform. Public administration. Comparative government. Electronic books. local Ingraham, Patricia W. Pierre, Jon. Peters, B. Guy. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10578030 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 86332 86332