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The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Looks at the ways in which government in the United States needs to change in order to cope with the challenges of the new century. The author presents a new model, which is more flexible and less bureaucratic.

"Public Sector Performance brings together, in a single volume, the classic, enduring principles and processes that have defined the field of public sector performance as written in the words of leading practitioners and scholars. Confronted with rising citizen discontent, the Reinventing Government movement, and new technological challenges, public organizations everywhere are seeking means of improving their performance. Taken as a whole, this volume...

This dictionary provides brief definitions of terms used in international public-management and governance parlance. The definitions were chosen to reflect terms one is most likely to come across in the international literature and are give primarily from the organizational and public-policy perspectives. Bhatta (a senior governance specialist at the Asian Development Bank) has sacrificed depth in explanation for breadth in coverage. Annotation :2006...

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed...