Comparative administrative change and reform  lessons learned /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. 
 - Montreal ;  Ithaca :  McGill-Queen's University Press,  c2010. 
 - x, 349 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> Festschrift in honour of B. Guy Peters. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-335) and index. 
<br/><br/> Ideas in action :  why the reality of the administrative reform grinder matters /  The ideas of reform :  reforming governance and accountability.  Change and continuity :  an institutional approach to institutions of democratic government /  The ideas of reform :  leaders and change --  New public leadership for public service reform /  Leaders and leadership in administrative reform /  The ideas of reform :  management systems and other reformed tools.  Simply the best? --  The international benchmarking of reform and good governance /  Cyber-bureaucracy --  if information technology is so central to public administration, why is it so Ghetto-ized? /  The design of reform --  the evolution of policy tools --  Reforming management and management sytems --  impacts and issues /  The design of reform :  western ideas and models in non-western settings --  Implementing developed countries' administrative reforms in developing countries --  the case of M�exico /  Western models and administrative reform in China :  pragmatism and the search for modernity /  Bureaucrats, politicians, and the transfer of administrative reform into Thailand /  Change and reform in a multinational context.  Change and reform in the European Union /  Looking back at reform efforts :  what worked?  Success and failure of reform :  taking stock /  Conclusions :  the future of public management /  Patricia Ingraham and Jon Pierre --  Johan P. Olser --  Geert Bouckaert --  Ian Thynne --  Christopher Pollitt --  Christopher Hood and Helen Margetts --  John Halligan --  Jos�e Luis M�endez --  John P. Burns --  Bidhya Bowornwathana --  Alberta M. Sbragia --  Donald J. Savoie ;  Jon Pierre. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2011. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0773536590 (bound) 9780773536609 (pbk.) 0773536604 (pbk.) 9780773536593 9780773583849 (e-book) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Administrative agencies--Reorganization.<br/>Civil service reform.<br/>Public administration.<br/>Comparative government.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JF51  / .C613 2010eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>352.3/67