Denis Saint-Martin

Building the New Managerialist State

Consultants and the Politics of Public Sector Reform in Comparative Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the mid-1980s, the world of governance has witnessed a transition from the Weberian model of bureaucracy to the "new managerialism". This text examines the differences in the extent to which France, Canada and Britain have embraced these ideas in the process of bureaucratic reform.

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This 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199240371
• ISBN-10: 019924037X
• Artikelnr.: 26624294

Autorenporträt

Denis Saint-Martin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal. Previous positions include Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa (1998-9), and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1996-8).

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: Variations of Managerialist Ideas
* Explaining the rise and spread of managerialist ideas
* Consultants, the state, and the politics of managerialism
* Chapter 2: The Management Consulting Industry: History and structure
* The boundaries of management consulting
* The historical and institutional link between management consulting
and accountancy
* Conclusion
* Chapter 3: Britain: Providing management policy advice through the
centre of government
* Labour's scientific revolution and the need for 'opening up' the
civil service
* Heath and the white paper on government reorganization
* Thatcherism and the 'efficiency strategy'
* Conclusion
* Chapter 4: Canada: Spreading managerialist ideas through politically
independent bodies
* 'Let the managers manage': The Glassco commission
* The search for a framework of central direction
* The royal commission on financial management and accountability
* The 1977 auditor general act
* From Nielson to PS2000: The new managerialism in the Mulroney era
* Conclusion
* Chapter 5: France: Reforming from within, or statism and
managerialism
* The legacies of postwar reforms
* The decentralization reforms of 1982
* Conclusion
* Chapter 6: Conclusion: Consultants, the state, and the politics of
managerialism
* Establishing the authority of management consultancy
* The legacies of past bureaucratic reform policies
* Consultocracy and democracy