Building the New Managerialist State

Consultants and the Politics of Public Sector Reform in Comparative Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-924037-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

In the 1980s and 1990s the world of governance witnessed a far-reaching change from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism' - a term used to describe the group of ideas imported from business and mainly brought into government by management consultants. Over the past fifteen years, the British, French, and Canadian governments have spent growing sums of money on consulting services and, as a result, policy-makers inside the state have increasingly been exposed to the business management ideas that consultants bring into the public sector.

Nevertheless, there are major differences in the extent to which reformers in the three countries embraced these ideas in the process of bureaucratic reform. Accordingly, this is a book about policy change and variation. It seeks to explain why the changes produced by the new managerialism have been more radical in some countries than in others. Building the New Managerialist State shows that the political reception given by governments to managerialist ideas has been significantly shaped by the openness of policy-making institutions to outside expert knowledge and on the organization, development, and social recognition of management consultancy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saint-Martin, Denis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Chapter 1: Variations of Managerialist Ideas

- Explaining the rise and spread of managerialist ideas

- Consultants, the state, and the politics of managerialism

- Chapter 2: The Management Consulting Industry: History and structure

- The boundaries of management consulting

- The historical and institutional link between management consulting and accountancy

- Conclusion

- Chapter 3: Britain: Providing management policy advice through the centre of government

- Labour's scientific revolution and the need for 'opening up' the civil service

- Heath and the white paper on government reorganization

- Thatcherism and the 'efficiency strategy'

- Conclusion

- Chapter 4: Canada: Spreading managerialist ideas through politically independent bodies

- 'Let the managers manage': The Glassco commission

- The search for a framework of central direction

- The royal commission on financial management and accountability

- The 1977 auditor general act

- From Nielson to PS2000: The new managerialism in the Mulroney era

- Conclusion

- Chapter 5: France: Reforming from within, or statism and managerialism

- The legacies of postwar reforms

- The decentralization reforms of 1982

- Conclusion

- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Consultants, the state, and the politics of managerialism

- Establishing the authority of management consultancy

- The legacies of past bureaucratic reform policies

- Consultocracy and democracy

Über Autor(innen)

Denis Saint-Martin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal. Previous positions include Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa (1998-9), and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1996-8).