Comparative Administration Change and Reform: Lessons Learned PDF
Preview Comparative Administration Change and Reform: Lessons Learned
This page intentionally left blank Comparative Administrative Change and Reform Lessons Learned Edited by jon pierre and patricia w. ingraham McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2010 isbn 978-0-7735-3659-3 (cloth) isbn 978-0-7735-3660-9 (paper) Legal deposit first quarter 2010 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the University of Moncton. McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp) for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Canada’s game : hockey and identity / edited by Andrew C. Holman. Comparative administrative change and reform: lessons learned / edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters. Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-0-7735-3659-3 (bnd) isbn 978-0-7735-3660-9 (pbk) 1. Administrative agencies – Reorganization. 2. Civil service reform. 3. Public administration. 4. Comparative government. i. Pierre, Jon ii. Ingraham, Patricia W. iii. Peters, B. Guy da. i. Holman, Andrew Carl, 1965– jf51.c611 2010 352.3’67 c2009–906015–9 Typeset in Sabon 10.5/13 by Infoscan Collette, Quebec City This book is dedicated with affection, respect, and gratitude to b. guy peters for his remarkable contributions to the study of policy, administration, and governance. This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix Ideas in Action: Why the Reality of the Administrative Reform Grinder Matters 3 Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre part one the ideas of reform: reforming governance and accountability 1 Change and Continuity: An Institutional Approach to Institutions of Democratic Government 15 Johan P. Olsen part two the ideas of reform: leaders and change 2 New Public Leadership for Public Service Reform 51 Geert Bouckaert 3 Leaders and Leadership in Administrative Reform 68 Ian Thynne part three the ideas of reform: management systems and other reformed tools 4 Simply the Best? The International Benchmarking of Reform and Good Governance 91 Christopher Pollitt 5 Cyber-bureaucracy: If Information Technology Is So Central to Public Administration, Why Is It So Ghetto-ized? 114 Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts viii Contents part four the design of reform: the evolution of policy tools 6 Reforming Management and Management Systems: Impacts and Issues 139 John Halligan part five the design of reform: western ideas and models in non-western settings 7 Implementing Developed Countries’ Administrative Reforms in Developing Countries: The Case of Mexico 159 José Luis Méndez 8 Western Models and Administrative Reform in China: Pragmatism and the Search for Modernity 182 John P. Burns 9 Bureaucrats, Politicians, and the Transfer of Administrative Reform into Thailand 207 Bidhya Bowornwathana part six change and reform in a multinational context 10 Change and Reform in the European Union 233 Alberta M. Sbragia part seven looking back at reform efforts: what worked? 11 Success and Failure of Reform: Taking Stock 259 Donald J. Savoie 12 Conclusions: The Future of Public Management 278 Jon Pierre Contibutors 287 References 289 Index 337 Preface B. Guy Peters is the Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh. A native of Hopewell, Virginia, Professor Peters received his phd from Michigan State University. He was an early leader in the analysis of public policy and the policy process. His classic text, American Public Policy: Problems and Prospects, is now in its seventh edition. He moved quickly to a companion interest in comparative politics, policy, and administration. Comparative Public Administration: Problems of Theory and Method was first published in 1988 and quickly became a touchstone for scholars and students who studied the role of administration in policy processes and administrative reform. Guy Peters is the author or editor of over forty books that have been translated into a dozen languages. He has been a visiting pro- fessor or research scholar at over twenty-five universities around the world and has lectured at many more. His hundreds of published papers and research reports have informed virtually every aspect of public policy, administrative politics and policy, administrative reform, governance, institutionalism and institutionalist theory, and globalization, among other subjects. His perceptive analyses have made enormous contributions to these areas. Perhaps of equal significance, Guy Peters’ international network of colleagues and friends includes the leading scholars in the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, and Latin America. Guy’s work with Donald Savoie at the Canadian Centre for Management Development (now the Canada School of Public Service) created not only five important books but a lasting set of collaborations world-wide. Among his x Preface many contributions will be that the connections he provided have sparked some of the healthiest debates in academia and government. Guy and his wife Sheryn, avid bird watchers, have traversed the globe several times in search not only of ever elusive species but also the ever elusive idea or concept that can move scholarly analysis forward. In his writing, his lectures, his students, and his unending energetic inquiry, Guy Peters is a model of the remarkably cre- ative syn ergy that can exist between academics and the worlds they inhabit.
The list of books you might like
