The Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transference of Governance

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

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Over the last quarter century, governments around the world have launched ambitious efforts to reform how they manage their programs. Citizens have demanded smaller, cheaper, more effective governments. They have also asked for more programs and better services. To resolve this paradox, governments have experimented with scores of ideas to be more productive, improve performance, and reduce costs. In this new edition of The Global Public Management Revolution, Donald F. Kettl charts the basic models of reform that are being employed worldwide.
Reviewing the standard strategies and tactics behind these reforms, Kettl identifies six common core ideas:

the search for greater productivity

More public reliance on private markets

A stronger orientation toward service

More decentralization from national to subnational governments

Increased capacity to devise and track public policy

Enhance accountability for results

Kettl predicts that reform and reinvention will likely become mantras for governments of all stripes. Ultimately, this strategy means coupling the reform impulse with governance government's increasingly important relationship with civil society and the institutions that shape modern life.

Reviews

"A highly readable argument that good governance is a necessary condition for economic prosperity and social cohesion." Canadian Public Administration

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"[A] short, readable, and important book" Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Author Bio

Donald F. Kettl is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also director of the Fels Institute of Government and a professor of political science. Kettl is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics (CQ Press, 2nd ed., in 2007) and The Global Public Management Revolution (Brookings, 2nd ed., in 2005).