Unbundled government : a critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation / / edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot
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| Titolo: |
Unbundled government : a critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation / / edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xv, 349 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 352.3/67 |
| Soggetto topico: | Administrative agencies - Reorganization |
| Decentralization in government | |
| Public administration | |
| Organizational change | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
PollittChristopher
TalbotColin
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | part Part I Setting the scene -- chapter 1 The Agency idea -- Sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue / Colin Talbot -- chapter 2 What is available and what is missing in the study of quangos? / Geert Bouckaert -- part PART II Agencies, quangos and contracts in the heartlands of the New Public Management -- chapter 3 Adapting the agency concept -- Variations within Next Steps / Francesca Gains -- chapter 4 Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK / Oliver James -- chapter 5 Contracting and accountability -- A model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience / Jocelyn M. Johnston -- chapter 6 Contractualism and performance measurement in Australia / Linda McGuire -- chapter 7 The agency concept in North America: failure, adaptation and incremental change -- Failure, adaptation, and incremental change / Andrew Graham -- part Part III Autonomization in continental Europe and Japan -- chapter 8 Quangos in Dutch government / Sandra Van Thiel -- chapter 9 Lost in translation? Shifting interpretations of the concept of agency: the Dutch case -- Shifting interpretations of the concept of agency: the Dutch / Amanda Smullen -- chapter 10 Central agencies in Sweden -- A report from Utopia / Jon Pierre -- chapter 11 Agencification in Japan -- Renaming or revolution? / Kiyoshi Yamamoto -- part Part IV Autonomization in the developing and transitional countries -- chapter 12 New public management in a developing country -- Creating executive agencies in Tanzania / Janice Caul?eld -- chapter 13 Putting new public management to good use -- Autonomous public organizations in Thailand / Bidhya Bowornwathana -- chapter 14 The design, performance and sustainability of semi-autonomous revenue authorities in Africa and Latin America / Robert R. Taliercio Jr -- chapter 15 Castles built on sand? -- Agencies in Latvia / Christopher Pollitt -- chapter 16 A radical departure? -- Executive agencies in Jamaica / Colin Talbot -- part Part V Overview -- chapter 17 Theoretical overview / Christopher Pollitt. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unbundled government |
| ISBN: | 1-280-07545-7 |
| 0-203-50714-2 | |
| 0-415-31448-8 | |
| 1-134-37979-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450743103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in public management ; ; 1.