Federal management reform in a world of contradictions / / Beryl A. Radin

• Autore: Radin Beryl
• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : Georgetown University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 352.3/670973; 352.3670973
• Soggetto topico: Administrative agencies - United States - Management; Civil service reform - United States; Public administration - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The background -- Public/private management relationships -- Political structures matter -- Contracting out: A-76 -- Personnel policy reform -- Reorganization as reform -- Budgeting as reform -- Federalism and intergovernmental relations -- Performance measurement -- Living with contradictions.
• Sommario/riassunto: Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years. Yet these efforts by public management professionals have frequently failed to produce lasting results. In her new book, Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions , renowned public administration scholar Beryl A. Radin reveals what may lie behind the failure of so many efforts at government management reform. To spur new thinking about this problem, Radin examines three basic sets of contradictions between the strategies of the reformers and the reality of the US federal
• Titolo autorizzato: Federal management reform in a world of contradictions
• ISBN: 1-58901-893-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811510103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Public management and change.