Public management Critical Perspectives on Business and Management critical perspectives on business and management Series

Since the 1980s, the public sector throughout the Western industrialized world, the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and South East Asia has undergone major changes. The main thrust of these changes has been to bring public sector management practices closer to those of the private sector. This raises the question of how far public and private sector management are comparable.

This comprehensive five volume set examines the relationships between public and private sector management in terms of both classical management theory and the new public management that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. While the collection concentrates on articles from the last twenty years, some historical pieces are also included, and a detailed index is also provided. Individual volume introductions as well as a general introduction place the articles in their historical context, making this an invaluable public management reference. 

Volume 1: Foundations of Contemporary Public Management

Introduction: (i) Stephen P. Osborne and Kate McLaughlin From Public Administration to Public Governance: Public Management in the Twenty-First Century

(ii) Stephen P. Osborne Public Management across the Twentieth Century: a Review of Practice and Research

Part 1: The Background to Public Administration and Management

1. J. E. Lane Demarcation of the Public Sector The Public Sector [1995]

2. W. Wilson The Study of Administration Political Science Quarterly [1887]

3. I. Sharansky Historical Survey and Contemporary Overview Public Administration: Agencies, Policies and Politics [1982]

Part 2: Critiques of the Public Sector and of Public Administration

4. V. Ostrom and E. Ostrom Public Choice: a Different Approach to the Study of Public Administration Public Administration Review [1971]

5. A. Downs Why Bureaus are Necessary Inside Bureaucracy

6. P. Dunleavy The bureau Shaping Model' Democracy Bureaucracy and Public Choice [1991]

7. B. G. Peters Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Politics of Policy Making Bureaucracy and Public Choice [1987]

Part 3: The 'New Public Management'

8. C. Hood A Public Management for all Seasons? Public Administration [1991]

9. E. Ferlie, L. Ashburner, L. Fitzgerald and A. Pettigrew Characterizing the 'New Public Management' The New Public Management in Practice [1996]

Part 4: Analysing and Evaluating the 'New Public Management'

10. G. Boyne The Intellectual Crisis in British Public Administration: is Public Management the Problem or the Solution? Public Administration [1996]

11. K. Meier Bureaucracy and Democracy: the Case for More Bureaucracy and Less Democracy Public Administration Review [1997]

12. D. Savoie What is Wrong with the New Public Management? Canadian Public Administration [1995]

13. R. Gregory The Peculiar Tasks of Public Management: Towards Conceptual Discrimination Australian Journal of Public Administration [1995]

14. J. Alford Towards a New Public Management Model: Beyond Managerialism and its Critics Australian Journal of Public Administration [1995]

15. D. Coombes The Place of Public Management in the Modern European State Innovations in Public Management [1998]

16. S. Dawson and C. Dargie New Public Management: an Assessment and Evaluation with Special Reference to UK Health Public Management [1999]

17. J. Gow and C. Dufour Is the New Public Management a Paradigm? Does it Matter? International Review of Administrative Sciences [2000]

Volume 2: The Plural State

Introduction: Stephen P. Osborne Public Management and the Plural State

Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives on the Plural State

18. J. Le Grand Quasi Markets and Social Policy Economic Journal [1991]

19. H. Brinton Milward and K. Provan Governing the Hollow State Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [2000]

20. J. Kooiman...