New Public Management in Europe

Adaptation and Alternatives

C. Pollitt, S. Van Thiel, V. Homburg, C. Pollitt, S. Van Thiel, V. Homburg, Kenneth A. Loparo, Sandra Van Thiel, C. Pollitt, S. Van Thiel, V. Homburg, Sandra Van Thiel

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9780230006935
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230625365
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

The New Public Management paradigm seems to have produced a convergence of administrative reform. However, specific implementations of NPM show range of forms and results including performance indicators, personal reforms and evaluations of reforms. This text demonstrates how NPM is crafted differently in various institutional contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures and Boxes
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Convergence or Divergence: What has been Happening in Europe?
• 3 Public Management Reforms in Countries with a Napoleonic State Model: France, Italy and Spain
• 4 The Management and Control of Executive Agencies: an Anglo-Dutch Comparison
• 5 Public–Private Partnership: a Two-Headed Reform. A Comparison of PPP in England and the Netherlands
• 6 ‘New Public Managers’ in Europe: Changes and Trends
• 7 International Benchmarking of Public Organizations: a Critical Approach
• 8 Will ICTs Finally Reinvent Government? The Mutual Shaping of Institutions and ICTs
• 9 Hospital Performance Indicators: How and Why Neighbours Facing Similar Problems Go Different Ways – Building Explanations of Hospital Performance Indicator Systems in England and the Netherlands
• 10 New Public Management and Evaluation
• 11 Implementing NPM: a Complexity Perspective on Public Management Reform Trajectories
• 12 Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index