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The Changing World of Top Officials

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
290 Seiten
Englisch
McGraw-Hill Publishing Companyerschienen am10.01.2001
This book explores the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in the Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK. It also seeks to explore their 'infinite variety' by showing how inherited government traditions shape the response to reform.It examines how such reforms as privatization and contracting out have affected who does these jobs and how they do them. It asks whether the demands of the new public management have made departmental heads more accountable, more public and more vulnerable. For each of the six countries the authors give details of departmental secretaries' backgrounds, their career paths, their conditions of employment, their impacts, and their changing positions. Central to each chapter are short biographies or portraits of top officials with extensive quotations from interviews in which they talk about how they see their worlds and how, for instance, they now focus more on managing their departments and less on policy-making. The experience of senior public servants is brought vividly to life.This book is the first comprehensive, comparative portrait of top government officials, and is an important resource for students and scholars of politics, public policy and public management, and makes fascinating reading for all senior civil servants themselves.mehr

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KlappentextThis book explores the roles and workings of the heads of government departments in six nations: departmental secretaries in Australia, departmentschefs in Denmark, directeurs d'administration in France, secretaris-generaal in the Netherlands, chief executives in New Zealand, and permanent secretaries in the UK. It also seeks to explore their 'infinite variety' by showing how inherited government traditions shape the response to reform.It examines how such reforms as privatization and contracting out have affected who does these jobs and how they do them. It asks whether the demands of the new public management have made departmental heads more accountable, more public and more vulnerable. For each of the six countries the authors give details of departmental secretaries' backgrounds, their career paths, their conditions of employment, their impacts, and their changing positions. Central to each chapter are short biographies or portraits of top officials with extensive quotations from interviews in which they talk about how they see their worlds and how, for instance, they now focus more on managing their departments and less on policy-making. The experience of senior public servants is brought vividly to life.This book is the first comprehensive, comparative portrait of top government officials, and is an important resource for students and scholars of politics, public policy and public management, and makes fascinating reading for all senior civil servants themselves.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-0-335-20301-7
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2001
Erscheinungsdatum10.01.2001
Seiten290 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 15 mm
Gewicht390 g
Artikel-Nr.12889787

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and acknowledgementsIntroduction'enter centre stage'France'dual structure, shared dilemma'Netherlands'fragmenting pillars, fading colours'Denmark'the Island culture'United Kingdom'everybody but us'Australia'mandarins or lemons?'New Zealand'cautionary tale or shining example?'Conclusions'Antipodean exceptionalism, European traditionalism'ReferencesIndexIndex.mehr