Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of
the political and policy making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully …

Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Over the last two decades, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts
to reform the way they manage their programs. Citizens in nations like Mongolia and …

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question
that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration …

We argue that several easily identifiable structural features constitute the key ingredients of
effective state bureaucracies and should help to predict ratings of bureaucratic performance …

The economics of development is one of the most exciting subjects in social science. Why,
two centuries after the Industrial Revolution, are poverty and its attendant ills so prevalent in …

This is a book about bureaucracy and ethics. More specifically, it is a book about the ethos of
bureaucratic office. It represents an attempt to recover a certain ethical dignity for a particular …

Internationally, there has been mounting interest in the subject of accounting for
infrastructure assets and their deterioration. In New Zealand, the adoption of full accrual …

One of the persistent claims made about the public sector over the past several decades has
been that the public service has become more politicized. Addressing this important area of …

Since the late 1970s, a truly remarkable revolution has swept public management around
the world. Understanding this revolution means sorting through three issues: the basic ideas …