Building the New Managerialist State - Consultants and the Politics of Public Sector Reform in Comparative Perspective - Paperback - 2004

This title explores and compares trends in public management reform over the last 40 years in Britain, France, and Canada. It 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.
Year of publication: 2004
Pagination: 264 pages, 6 b/w line figures
Format: Paperback