Text/reference stresses the impact of recent managerial reforms and shifting societal values on the stability, legitimacy, and progress of democratic governments and offers tools and strategies for a new generation of modern administrative systems.
Author(s): Eran Vigoda-Gadot
Series: Public Administration and Public Policy
Edition: 1st
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 421
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Contents......Page 16
Contributors......Page 20
Introduction......Page 22
The Legacy of Public Administration......Page 32
Economic Versus Social Values and Other Dilemmas in Policy Making......Page 50
Toward More Democratic Governance......Page 68
Accountability in New Public Management......Page 94
Governing in a Market Era......Page 116
The Quest for Collaboration......Page 130
The Meaning of Work for Public-Sector Versus Private-Sector Employees......Page 150
New Ethical Challenges Under the New Reform Movements in the Public Administration Sector......Page 170
Public Administration—The New Generation......Page 182
The Digitized Health Service......Page 208
Can Competition Transform Public Organizations?......Page 242
Some Organizational Learning About Change......Page 274
The Organization of Chaos......Page 290
Consumer Communications Management and Public Administration......Page 318
Toward Comprehensive Reform of Israel’s Education System......Page 336
Public Management and Governance......Page 376
Index......Page 408
