The Global Public Management Revolution [Paperback]

Donald F. Kettl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 0815749171 | ISBN-13: 978-0815749172 | Edition: 1

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 Sweden, New Zealand, and the United States have demanded smaller, cheaper, more effective governments. They have also asked for more programs and better services. To resolve this paradox, governments have experimented with scores of ideas to be more productive, to improve performance, and to reduce costs. In The Global Public Management Revolution, Donald F. Kettl charts the basic models of reform that are being employed worldwide, including New Zealands new public management, the U.S. effort at reinventing government, and related efforts in developed and developing nations. In reviewing the standard strategies and tactics behind these reforms, Kettl has identified six common core ideas: the search for greater productivity; more public reliance on private markets; a stronger orientation toward service; more decentralization from national to subnational governments; increased capacity to devise and track public policy; and tactics to enhance accountability for results. Kettl predicts that reform and reinvention will likely become mantras for governments of all stripes, requiring the instinct for reform to be hardwired into government practice. Ultimately, this strategy means coupling the reform impulse with governancegovernment's increasingly important relationship with civil society and the institutions that shape modern life.

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About the Author

Donald F. Kettl is a nonresident senior fellow in the Governmental Studies program at the Brookings Institution and professor of public affairs and political science in the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous Brookings books include Reinventing Government: A Fifth Year Report Card (1998).

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press; 1 edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815749171
• ISBN-13: 978-0815749172
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,049,956 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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