• ISBN13: 9781446240892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Economics
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: January 1, 2013
• Pages: 1632
• Original Price: GBP 820.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 3020 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / General and Public Affairs & Administration

Public Sector Reform is endemic to public administrations and governmental structures globally. It is driven by a variety of dynamics and these vary according to their specific context: geographical, cultural, social, political, economic and temporal. This four-volume set brings together elements of the classical and modern work in this diverse field in a comprehensive and accessible way; providing an indispensable resource for both academics and practitioners from a social science and business perspective. Through a 4-volume structure, which takes in historical and modern day perspectives whilst maintaining a strong global focus on the subject, the set demonstrates that reform is a constant process and that it has been taking place for a long time; that which we often consider a ′golden age′ in terms of Weberian bureaucracies or welfare state hierarchies, was itself a reform that belonged to a specific time and set of places.

Volume One: The Historical Perspective of Reform

Volume Two: Management and Post New Public Management: Reform in a time of Change

Volume Three: Post-Soviet Reform

Volume Four: The Developing World and Reform: African, Other Asian and Latin American Pathways