Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

This remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, widely-cited academic text on public management reform in Europe, North America and Australasia.. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented.In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, including the addition of extensive analyses and information about the impacts of austerity. Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Many new sources are cited and there is a new exploration of the interactions between austerity and the major paradigms of reform - NPM, the Neo-Weberian State and New

He serves in several editorial boards including JPART, PAR, and PPMR.. Previously he was Editor of Public Administration and the International Review of Administrative Sciences. He is currently President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), after having served as president of its European Group for Public Administration (EGPA). Winner of the 2004 Hans Sigrist International Prize for his work of comparative government, he has worked in the UK, t

About the AuthorChristopher Pollitt is Emeritus Professor at the Public Governance Institute, Leuven. His publications are in the field of reform, performance, financial management, and trust. He is currently President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), after having served as president of its European Group for Public Administration (EGPA). He is the author of more than a dozen books and well over 60 scientific articles. Previously he was Editor of Pub