Books written by Geert Bouckaert

Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis

... security of 72-4, 118, 155, 162-3, 170 Thain, C. 184,270 Thatcher, Margaret 20, 30, 31, 43, 48, 50, 55, 82, 94, 111, 126, 128, 136, 155, 178, 184, 270, 271,272, 273 Thielen,H. 240 think tanks 20, 54-6 Thompson, A. 180 Thompson, ...
Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - New Public Management, Governance, and the Neo-Weberian State

Donahue (2008) reports on a successful reform in the Maine office of the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The State of Maine had rather a poor safety record, and 'continued downward pressure on its budget and ...
The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations: Shifting Patterns of Public Management

Scholars see this shift of emphasis in New Zealand as being exemplary of a new – some say, post-New Public Management (NPM) (Richards and Smith 2006) – trend in several OECD countries, and as a reaction to a previous trend with respect ...
Performance Management in the Public Sector

5.1 Constraints on the opportunity for dysfunctional behaviour First, organizations need to have an impact on the intake. ... Therefore, it may be easier 'to park' a case if several people are minimally affected than when few people are ...
Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis

This is a comprehensive, integrated analysis of the wave of management reforms which have swept through many countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the UK, the ...
The Enduring Challenges in Public Management: Surviving and Excelling in a Changing World

The And of the Cold War, advances in information technology, and the many other global changes of the past decade have required managers to change their frame of reference. It...
Public Productivity Through Quality and Strategic Management

Public Productivity Through Quality and Strategic Management
Continuity and Change in Public Policy and Management

This vivid book of 'continuity and change' in policy and management by Pollitt and Bouckaert follows in the footsteps of Pollitt's previous book on the issue of time, a vital but often neglected issue.
Performance Management in the Public Sector

A good start to thinking about the state of the art of performance research is 'Performance Measurement: Building Theory, Improving Practice' by De Lancer Julnes & Holzer (2008). The controversy around performance management is best ...
Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Into the Age of Austerity

This is the thoroughly revised fourth edition of the widely-used and established standard text on public management reform.
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies.
La reforma de la gestión pública: Un análisis comparado

CANADÁ A. Fuerzas socioeconómicas: general Consultar la sección A.2 y la tabla A.1. ... D. Políticas socioeconómicas De acuerdo con los índices de la OCDE, Canadá no pasó por el mejor momento de su economía en la década de los ochenta.
Public Administration in Ethiopia: Case Studies and Lessons for Sustainable Development

And what are the implications for sustainable development? This book is essential for students, practitioners, and theorists interested in public administration, public policy, and sustainable development.
Quality Improvement in European Public Services: Concepts, Cases and Commentary

A crucial dimension of higher education quality therefore is to be found in the very diversity of a higher education system . With respect to the quality of higher education in the United States , Birnbaum ( 1989 ) has made a similar ...
Public Productivity Through Quality and Strategic Management

Nutt , P.C. and Backoff , R.W. , 1993 , " Organizational Publicness and its Impact on Strategic Management , " Journal ... Shortell , S. , Morrison , E.M. , and Freedman , B. , 1988 , Strategic Choices for America's Hospitals : Managing ...
Performance Management in the Public Sector

This new edition has been revised and updated to examine: performance in the context of current public management debates, including emerging discussions on the New Public Governance and neo-Weberianism; the many definitions of performance ...
Performance Management in the Public Sector

situates performance in some of the current public management debates; --
La France et ses administrations : un état des savoirs: France and its public administrations : A state of the...

33.J.-P. GAUDIN, Gouverner par contrat : l'action publique en question, op. cit. 34. G. MARCOU, « Les instruments contractuels de l'aménagement du territoire dans les relations entre les collectivités publiques », in Le renouveau de ...
Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis: National Trajectories and International Comparisons

This book compares the trajectories and effects of local public sector reform in Europe and fills a research gap that has existed so far in comparative public administration and local government studies.
Over samenwerking en afstemming. Instrumenten voor een optimale beleids- en beheerscoördinatie in de publieke sector

Aanbevolen literatuur Als u meer informatie wenst rond interorganizational learning en kennismanagement : Davenport Th . H. & L. Prusak , Kennismanagement in de praktijk , Uitgeverij Contact , Amsterdam , 1998 , 279 p .