Strategies for public management reform

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"This book is unique so that it explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is represented in the book examine seven strategies for public management reform: (1) increases in accountability, (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and responsibility for decision making and management, (3) application of information technology to improve management and responsiveness of governments to citizens, (4) developing and improving management control systems in the public sector, (5) measures to reduce corruption in government, business and society, (6) development and use of performance indicators, and (7) integration of performance measurement and management in public organisations."--BOOK JACKET.  Read more... Assessment of public management reform and strategy / Kuno Schedler, Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari -- Part 1: Accountability, decentralization, and delegation strategies. -- Rethinking accountability in education: how should who hold whom accountable for what? / Robert D. Behn -- Development of contracting in infrastructure investment in the U.K.: the private finance initiative in the National Health Service / Jane Broadbent, Jas Gill, Richard Laughlin -- Stakeholder theory, partnerships and alliances in the health care sector of the U.K. and Scotland / Alexander Murdock -- Strategies for health care reform implementation in southern Italy / Marco Menneguzo, Valentina Mele, Angelo Tenese -- Part 2: Information technology and management control strategies -- Managing the e-government organization / Kuno Schedler, Bernhard Schmidt -- Reform of public management through ICT: interface, accountability and transparency / Hiroko Kudo -- Risk, reform and organizational culture: the case of IRS tax systems modernization / Barry Bozeman -- Management control reform in the public sector: contrasting the USA and Italy / Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari -- Part 3: Anti-corruption strategies -- Political corruption: establishing the parameters / Peter deLeon and Mark T. Green -- Supply-side control of corruption: The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the OECD Convention / Masako N. Darrough -- Coping with corruption in Albanian public administration and business / Denita Cepiku -- Reducing corruption in post-Communist countries / Alexander Kotchegura -- Part 4: Performance assessment and management strategies -- A conceptual framework and methodological guide for research on public management policy change in the Latin American region / Michael Barzelay [and others] -- Developing performance indicators and measurement systems in public institutions / Kuno Schedler -- Evaluation of new public management reforms in Switzerland: empirical results and reflections on methodology / Stefan Rieder and Luzia Lehmann -- Measuring and managing for performance: lessons from Australia / Bill Ryan -- Part 5: Trends in reform strategy -- Assessing public management reform strategy in an international context / Lawrence R. Jones and Donald F. Kettl.