Governance and the Public Sector

Edited by Ron Hodges, Emeritus Professor of Accounting, University of Birmingham, UK

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Ron HodgesPART IPRINCIPLES AND PERSPECTIVES 1. R.A.W. Rhodes (1994), ‘The Hollowing Out of the State: The Changing Nature of the Public Service in Britain’2. Christopher Hood (1991), ‘A Public Management for All Seasons?’3. Ron Hodges, Mike Wright and Kevin Keasey (1996), ‘Corporate Governance in the Public Services: Concepts and Issues’4. Adrian Leftwich (1993), ‘Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World’5. Jan Kooiman (1999), ‘Social-Political Governance’6. Chris Huxham (2000), ‘The Challenge of Collaborative Governance’PART IIGOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT 7. James M. Ferris and Elizabeth A. Graddy (1998), ‘A Contractual Framework for New Public Management Theory’8. Laurence E. Lynn Jr. (1998), ‘A Critical Analysis of the New Public Management’9. Martha S. Feldman and Anne M. Khademian (2001), ‘Principles for Public Management Practice: From Dichotomies to Interdependence’10. Christopher Hood (1995), ‘The “New Public Management” in the 1980s: Variations on a Theme’11. Walter J.M. Kickert (1997), ‘Public Governance in the Netherlands: An Alternative to Anglo-American “Managerialism”’12. Christoffer Green-Pedersen (2002), ‘New Public Management Reforms of the Danish and Swedish Welfare States: The Role of Different Social Democratic Responses’PART IIIGOVERNANCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTING AND AUDIT 13. Lee Parker and Graeme Gould (1999), ‘Changing Public Sector Accountability: Critiquing New Directions’14. J.D. Stewart (1984), ‘The Role of Information in Public Accountability’15. Anthony Hopwood (1984), ‘Accounting and the Pursuit of Efficiency’16. Mahmoud Ezzamel and Hugh Willmott (1993), ‘Corporate Governance and Financial Accountability: Recent Reforms in the UK Public Sector’17. Christopher Pollitt and Hilkka Summa (1997), ‘Reflexive Watchdogs? How Supreme Audit Institutions Account for Themselves’18. Yves Gendron, David J. Cooper and Barbara Townley (2001), ‘In the Name of Accountability: State Auditing, Independence and New Public Management’19. June Pallot (2003), ‘A Wider Accountability? The Audit Office and New Zealand’s Bureaucratic Revolution’PART IVGOVERNANCE IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 20. Joseph E. Stiglitz (2003), ‘Democratizing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: Governance and Accountability’21. Richard J. Stillman II (2003), ‘Twenty-first Century United States Governance: Statecraft as Reform Craft and the Peculiar Governing Paradox it Perpetuates’22. Werner Jann (2003), ‘State, Administration and Governance in Germany: Competing Traditions and Dominant Narratives’23. Matthew Flinders (2002), ‘Governance in Whitehall’24. Geert R. Teisman and Erik-Hans Klijn (2002), ‘Partnership Arrangements: Governmental Rhetoric or Governance Scheme?’25. Meredith Edwards (2002), ‘Public Sector Governance – Future Issues for Australia’26. Harald Fuhr (2001), ‘Constructive Pressures and Incentives to Reform. Globalization and Its Impact on Public Sector Performance and Governance on Developing Countries’27. Mark Beeson (2001), ‘Globalization, Governance, and the Political-Economy of Public Policy Reform in East Asia’28. Bidhya Bowornwathana (2000), ‘Governance Reform in Thailand: Questionable Assumptions, Uncertain Outcomes’Name Index