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1. Administrative Reforms and Democratic Governance

   Edited by Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans, Jon Pierre

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   After a quarter of a century of implementation of New Public Management (NPM) reform strategies, this book assesses the major real outcomes of these reforms on states and public sectors, at both the organisational level and a more political level. Unlike most previous accounts of reform, this book...

   Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
2. Politicians, Bureaucrats and Administrative Reform

   Edited by Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   Adminstrative reform in most western democracies over the past couple of decades has been characterized by bringing in market-based concepts of public-service delivery. This book looks critically at administrative reform in a comparative perspective. The contributors - experts on administrative...

   Published April 5th 2006 by Routledge
3. The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

   A Quest for Control

   Edited by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy

   This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and...

   Published May 5th 2004 by Routledge