Introduction | |
The hollowing out of the state : the changing nature of the public service in Britain | p. 3 |
A public management for all seasons? | p. 17 |
Corporate governance in the public services : concepts and issues | p. 34 |
Governance, democracy and development in the third world | p. 41 |
Social-political governance | p. 61 |
The challenge of collaborative governance | p. 84 |
A contractual framework for new public management theory | p. 107 |
A critical analysis of the new public management | p. 123 |
Principles for public management practice : from dichotomies to interdependence | p. 140 |
The "new public management" in the 1980s : variations on a theme | p. 163 |
Public governance in the Netherlands : an alternative to Anglo-American "managerialism" | p. 180 |
New public management reforms of the Danish and Swedish welfare states : the role of different social democratic responses | p. 202 |
Changing public sector accountability : critiquing new directions | p. 229 |
The role of information in public accountability | p. 256 |
Accounting and the pursuit of efficiency | p. 278 |
Corporate governance and financial accountability : recent reforms in the UK public sector | p. 299 |
Reflexive watchdogs? : how supreme audit institutions account for themselves | p. 323 |
In the name of accountability : state auditing, independence and new public management | p. 347 |
A wider accountability? : the audit office and New Zealand's bureaucratic revolution | p. 380 |
Democratizing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank : governance and accountability | p. 405 |
Twenty-first century United States governance : statecraft as reform craft and the peculiar governing paradox it perpetuates | p. 434 |
State, administration and governance in Germany : competing traditions and dominant narratives | p. 456 |
Governance in Whitehall | p. 480 |
Partnership arrangements : governmental rhetoric or governance scheme? | p. 505 |
Public sector governance - future issues for Australia | p. 514 |
Constructive pressures and incentives to reform : globalization and its impact on public sector performance and governance on developing countries | p. 525 |
Globalization, governance, and the political-economy of public policy reform in East Asia | p. 550 |
Governance reform in Thailand : questionable assumptions, uncertain outcomes | p. 572 |
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