Building the New Managerialist State

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 powerful policy actors in public administration.