Handbook of Public Administration Reform

Edited by Shaun Francis Goldfinch, Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

• Contents:1 The challenge of public administration reform: introduction to theHandbook of Public Administration Reform 1Shaun Francis Goldfinch2 Public sector reform and merit: principles, practices, and pushback 27Catherine Althaus3 Recruitment and selection practices that facilitate workforce diversity inthe public sector 41Marie-France J. Waxin, Fang Zhao, and Angela Zacharias4 Addressing workplace culture and abuse 57Victor Sojo and Victoria Roberts5 Integrity and misconduct in public office 77Robert Gregory and Michael Macaulay6 Finance and accounting: recent developments and challenges buildingefficiency and public accountability 90Kiyoshi Yamamoto and Sabine Schührer7 Digital exhaust or strategic asset? Navigating big data benefits and risks forpublic administration 111Samantha Custer8 Public sector innovation: which season of public sector reform? 131Kai Wegrich9 The challenges of healthcare delivery: lessons from reform in healthadministration 146Robin Gauld10 Environmental management systems in the public sector: implementation,outcomes and key factors of success 164Marie-France J. Waxin, Aaron Bartholomew, Sandra L. Knuteson,Fang Zhao, and Areej Makda11 Crisis management and administrative reforms: lessons from Hong Kongand Singapore 182Anthony B. L. Cheung and Donald Low12 From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government? Trajectories ofadministrative reform in Germany 207Sabine Kuhlmann13 Reforming public administration in Italy: continuity and change from1861 to 2020 227Edoardo Ongaro, Fabrizio Di Mascio, Guido Melis, and Alessandro Natalini14 The United States: the political context of administrative reform 247Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman15 Hong Kong: a self-reforming civil service institution at a crossroads 270Anthony B. L. Cheung16 Public sector management reform in Japan: hybridization of old and newmodels or searching for a new model? 291Kiyoshi Yamamoto17 The United Kingdom: permanent revolution or muddling through? 311Sam Warner, David Richards, and Martin Smith18 Public sector reform in Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 330Gurmeet Singh and Neale Slack19 New Zealand: reunifying the state and the (really, truly, this time) death ofthe New Zealand Model? 351Shaun Francis Goldfinch20 Public management reforms in Brazil: innovations, paralysis, and setbacksin the last 25 years 373Pedro Cavalcante21 Public administrative reform in Australia 390John Halligan22 Administrative reform in Canada: taking it to a new level or on hold? 411David C. G. Brown23 Chinese public administration reforms 432Yijia Jing and Wenxue FanIndex 450