BUILDING THE NEW MANAGERIALIST STATE by Denis Saint-Martin ( 9780199269068 )

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BUILDING THE NEW MANAGERIALIST STATE
CONSULTANTS AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

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ISBN 10:

0199269068

ISBN 13:

9780199269068

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

4 March, 2004

Pages:

264

Description:

This prize-winning book explores and compares trends in public management reform over the last forty years in Britain, France, and Canada. In particular the author looks at the role of management consultants in these processes and examines the phenomenon described by some as 'consultocracy'. This suggests that the rise and spread of managerialism in public bureaucracies is a process driven by the material interests of the management consultants who became powerfulpolicy actors in public administration.

Synopsis:

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 reception given by states to managerialist ideas depends on the openness of policy-making institutions to outside expert knowledge and on the organization, development, and social recognition of management consultancy.

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Oxford University Press

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