Public Management and Administration: An Introduction - Softcover

Hughes, Owen E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333961889 ISBN 13: 9780333961889

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

In recent years there has been a transformation in the management of the public sector. The rigid, bureaucratic form of public administration which dominated for most of the 20th century has been replaced by a flexible, market-based form of public managem

About this title

About the Author:

Owen E. Hughes is Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University, Australia.

Review:

"A strength of the book is the admirable clarity of its arguments. Indeed, this is one of the best written books of its kind that I have come across. Nor does it suffer from the limitations of country-specific studies, treating the NPM as an international phenomenon." -- Chris Painter,Teaching Public Administration
-- Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0333961889
• ISBN 13: 9780333961889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 312