LEADER 04303nam 22006495 450 001 9910523739603321 005 20230810174202.0 010 $a3-030-89799-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-89799-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6875656 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6875656 035 $a(CKB)21022976300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-89799-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921022976300041 100 $a20220128d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAssessing Public Management Reforms /$fby Patrick Gibert, Jean-Claude Thoenig 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (217 pages) 225 1 $aUnderstanding Governance,$x2947-423X 311 08$aPrint version: Gibert, Patrick Assessing Public Management Reforms Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030897987 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aThis book examines why many ambitious public management policies do not materialize. Comprehensive reforms do not generate relevant and lasting changes. Yet some evolutions may occur that actually improve the efficiency level inside public administrations. The book identifies how and why such processes may occur. It explores an innovative approach to the way reform policies inside the public are assessed. The opening chapters examine the contributions of different disciplines to the study of change in the public sector, before proposing a framework to better understand management developments. The book then reviews eight crosscutting central government programmes successively launched since the late 1960s, examines how these programmes were designed and constructed, and analyses the ways in which three toolkits are appropriated: dashboards and indicators, cost-benefit analysis, and ex post evaluation. The final chapters examine the links between the development of agencification and the way in which central government proceeds to implement it, and demonstrate why and how the structure of human resources is crucial for initiating change processes. Together, the book proposes lessons for public practitioners as well as for academic purposes. Patrick C. Gibert is Emeritus Professor of Management at the University of Paris-Nanterre, France. An alumnus of the Northwestern Graduate School, his publications examine the ways in which public organizations enact performance management and policy evaluation. He is the co-founder of the journal Politiques et Management Public. Jean-Claude Thoenig is a former research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. A former associate dean at INSEAD, he led the French Conseil Scientifique de l?Évaluation. His academic contributions cover innovation management, policy implementation and evaluation, intergovernmental relationships, higher education, and research institutions. 410 0$aUnderstanding Governance,$x2947-423X 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aPublic administration 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aGovernance and Government 606 $aPublic Administration 606 $aEuropean Politics 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aPublic administration. 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aGovernance and Government. 615 24$aPublic Administration. 615 24$aEuropean Politics. 676 $a328.068 676 $a352.34 700 $aGibert$b Patrick$01079381 702 $aThoenig$b Jean-Claude$f1940- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910523739603321 996 $aAssessing public management reforms$92914841 997 $aUNINA