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International Bureaucracy
This book applies established analytical concepts such as influence, authority, administrative styles, autonomy, budgeting and multilevel administration to the study of …
Government Agencies
This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the crowded world of …
Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies
Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic forces. The case studies illustrate …
Civil Servants and Politics
This comparative study focuses on the changing relations between civil servants and politicians in the European Union in the last two decades. As well as national case studies this …
Autonomy and Control of State Agencies
By comparing the autonomy, control and internal management of public organizations, this book show how New Public Management doctrines work out in three small European states with …
Government Transparency
Transparency has become a global concept of responsible government. This book argues that the transnational discourse of transparency promotes potentially contradictory policy …
The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations
This book discusses the trajectories of creating specialized autonomous units. An analysis of the mechanisms and measures taken for granting autonomy to specialized autonomous …
Frontiers of Governance
The first detailedanalysis of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) influence on global public sector reform. Based on extensive interviews and …
Translating Agency Reform
Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of …
Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions
An exploration of whether politicians are perceived to keep their election promises. While scholars claim that parties act on most of their election promises, citizens hold the …