1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910523739603321

Autore

Gibert Patrick

Titolo

Assessing Public Management Reforms / / by Patrick Gibert, Jean-Claude Thoenig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030897994

3030897990

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Collana

Understanding Governance, , 2947-423X

Disciplina

328.068

352.34

Soggetti

Political planning

Political science

Public administration

Europe - Politics and government

Public Policy

Governance and Government

Public Administration

European Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Bridging Efficience and Efficiency -- 3. An enigma: The French Paradox -- 4. A poor appropriation of performance-oriented capacities -- 5. Required capabilities to assess and enact modernization capacities -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting changes. Yet some evolutions may occur that actually improve the efficiency level inside public administrations. The book identifies how and why such processes may occur. It explores an innovative approach to the way reform policies inside the public are assessed. The opening chapters examine the contributions of different disciplines to the study of change in the public sector, before



proposing a framework to better understand management developments. The book then reviews eight crosscutting central government programmes successively launched since the late 1960s, examines how these programmes were designed and constructed, and analyses the ways in which three toolkits are appropriated: dashboards and indicators, cost-benefit analysis, and ex post evaluation. The final chapters examine the links between the development of agencification and the way in which central government proceeds to implement it, and demonstrate why and how the structure of human resources is crucial for initiating change processes. Together, the book proposes lessons for public practitioners as well as for academic purposes. Patrick C. Gibert is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Paris-Nanterre, France. An alumnus of the Northwestern Graduate School, his publications examine the ways in which public organizations enact performance management and policy evaluation. He is the co-founder of the journal Politiques et Management Public. Jean-Claude Thoenig is a former research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. A former associate dean at INSEAD, he led the French Conseil Scientifique de l'Évaluation. His academic contributions cover innovation management, policy implementation and evaluation, intergovernmental relationships, higher education, and research institutions.



2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00209120

Autore

DEUTSHER, Isaac

Titolo

Il comunismo tra Krusciov e Mao / Isaac Deutsher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari, : Laterza, 1964

Descrizione fisica

97 p. ; 21 cm.

Soggetti

COMUNISMO SOVIETICO

MAOISMO

Stalinismo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia