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 …

Global politics have been transformed by revolution and reformation in the last two decades.
As political systems crashed or teetered precariously and entire governments and national …

Elaborates a model of accountability as a relationship of threeparties: principal, steward and
the codes on which stewardship isestablished, executed and adjudicated. Describes how …

Recent decades have seen the study of politics invaded by economic theories, methods and
techniques. This book gives a concise, non-technical account of these'public choice'theories …

This article identifies the main themes in recent changes in public sector management and
shows the extent of the challenge to past organizational assumptions. While recognizing the …

Government departments are central organizations in the development of public policy. Yet
there is very little literature on the political role of departments, their internal relationships …

Changes to the study of public administration tend to follow those in the practice of the
administration of government. The recent shift to public management is characterized and …

Seeks to promote discussion of the pursuit of accountable management in public sector
organizations by providing a commentary on post-1979 experiences with such reforms in the …

Following the rise of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980s, policymakers
increasingly mobilized management consultants from the private sector in the course of …

Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a
selection of key writings by RAW Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the …