The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation of Governance - Softcover

Kettl Sid Richardson Professor LBJ School University Of Texas At Austin, Donald F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815749171 ISBN 13: 9780815749172

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2000

Synopsis

Over the last two decades, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform the way they manage their programs. Citizens in nations like Mongolia and Sweden, New Zealand, and the United States have demanded smaller, cheaper, more effective governments. They have also asked for more programs and better services. To resolve this paradox, governments have experimented with scores of ideas to be more productive, to improve performance, and to reduce costs. In The Global Public Management Revolution, Donald F. Kettl charts the basic models of reform that are being employed worldwide, including New Zealand's "new public management," the U.S. effort at "reinventing government," and related efforts in developed and developing nations.

In reviewing the standard strategies and tactics behind these reforms, Kettl has identified six common core ideas: the search for greater productivity; more public reliance on private markets; a stronger orientation toward service; more decentralization from national to subnational governments; increased capacity to devise and track public policy; and tactics to enhance accountability for results. Kettl predicts that reform and reinvention will likely become mantras for governments of all stripes, requiring the instinct for reform to be hardwired into government practice. Ultimately, this strategy means coupling the reform impulse with governance—government's increasingly important relationship with civil society and the institutions that shape modern life.

About this title

About the Author

Donald F. Kettl is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also director of the Fels Institute of Government and a professor of political science. Kettl is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (CQ Press, 2nd ed., in 2007) and The Global Public Management Revolution (Brookings, 2nd ed., in 2005).

Review

"[Kettl] provides a highly readable argument that good governance is a necessary condition for economic prosperity and social cohesion." —Simon McInnes, Canadian Public Administration, vol. 44, no. 4

"[A] short, readable, and important book from the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Service." —Melissa M. Stone, Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 3/1/2002

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0815749171
• ISBN 13: 9780815749172
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 95