Public Sector Reform in Ireland

Public Sector Reform in Ireland
Title Public Sector Reform in Ireland PDF eBook
Author Muiris MacCarthaigh
Publisher Springer
Pages 305
Release 2017-07-04
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3319574604

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This book provides a thematic case-study analysis of the wide-ranging public sector reforms introduced in one of the states most deeply affected by the global financial crisis: the Republic of Ireland. It presents a timely and apposite examination of how a crisis can be used to overcome barriers and facilitate new reform agendas. The study draws upon unique insider access to the centre of Irish government, as well as interviews with over 60 key figures, to examine the implementation of those reforms over the 2011-16 period. The book opens with a contextual analysis of the creation of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Subsequent chapters explore the process of shrinking the Irish state, renegotiating the political-administrative bargain, expenditure reforms, administrative culture reforms, and political reforms. This rich ‘in action’ study of a reform agenda undertaken during a period of crisis will appeal not only to students of executive politics, cutback management and public sector reform, but also to practitioners seeking to implement administrative reforms.

Public Administration Reforms in Europe

Public Administration Reforms in Europe
Title Public Administration Reforms in Europe PDF eBook
Author Gerhard Hammerschmid
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing
Pages 305
Release 2016-06-24
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1783475404

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Based on a survey of more than 6700 top civil servants in 17 European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empirical findings regarding the dynamics, major trends and tools of administrative reforms, with special focus on the diversity of top executives’ perceptions about the effects of those reforms.

Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries

Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries
Title Public Sector Reform in Developing Countries PDF eBook
Author Victor Ayeni
Publisher Commonwealth Secretariat
Pages 152
Release 2002
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780850927115

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A country-by-country synopsis of the public sector reform programmes in 40 Commonwealth developing countries, with a profile of each country and an outline of the reform initiatives, implementation processes, achievements and problems encountered.

A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?

A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?
Title A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hood
Publisher
Pages 257
Release 2015
Genre History
ISBN 0199687021

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The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years. A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework. This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.

Local Government in Ireland

Local Government in Ireland
Title Local Government in Ireland PDF eBook
Author Mark Callanan
Publisher Institute of Public Administration
Pages 630
Release 2003
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9781902448930

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The Corporate Governance of Agencies in Ireland

The Corporate Governance of Agencies in Ireland
Title The Corporate Governance of Agencies in Ireland PDF eBook
Author Anne-Marie McGauran
Publisher Institute of Public Administration
Pages 284
Release 2005
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9781904541301

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Nordic Administrative Reforms

Nordic Administrative Reforms
Title Nordic Administrative Reforms PDF eBook
Author Carsten Greve
Publisher Springer
Pages 248
Release 2016-08-17
Genre Law
ISBN 113756363X

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This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on the assessments of administrative executives, the book compares the Nordic countries with the Anglo-Saxon, the Germanic, the Napoleonic and the East European group of countries. The book addresses the following questions: What reform trends are relevant in the public administrations of the Nordic countries? What institutional features characterize the state authorities in these countries? What characterizes the role identity, self-understanding, dominant values, and motivation of administrative executive in the Nordic countries? What characterizes reform processes, trends and content, what is the relevance of different types of management instruments, and what are their perceived effects and the perceived performance of the public administration? The book also examines how the different Nordic countries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.