TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ingraham,Patricia W.
AU  - Pierre,Jon
AU  - Peters,B.Guy
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Comparative administrative change and reform: lessons learned 
AV  - JF51 .C613 2010eb
U1  - 352.3/67 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Montreal, Ithaca
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Reorganization
KW  - Civil service reform
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10578030
ER  -