Internationalization of Public Management

Since the 1980s there has been a process of almost continuous reform in public management in developed countries and a renegotiation of traditional relationships between state, economy and society. These changes have been expressed through privatization, civil service reductions and restructuring, the introduction of market-type mechanisms to improve the delivery of public services, the construction of new forms of partnership between state and non-state organizations, and new types of regulation and accountability. In turn, these public managements have, in a variety of ways, have been transferred to the state systems of developing and transitional economies. This volume constitutes an attempt to examine the conceptual and practical problems which attend such policy transfers, and to make preliminary judgements about the successes and failures of public management reforming developing countries. The contributors offer instructive insights into the complex reality of the development. The latest title in the "New Horizons in Public Policy" series, this text covers the internationalization of public management in developing countries.