The Future of Governing: Four Emerging ModelsUniversity Press of Kansas, 1996 - 179 pages "A very important book that should be read by everyone trying to make sense of the reform problem". -- Patricia W. Ingraham, coauthor of New Paradigms for Government. |
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Page 26
... deal of effective com- petition , with little capacity for government agencies to escape the pressures ( B. Peters 1995c , 35 ) . Moreover , government provision or regulation or both may be justified when the social risks involved are ...
... deal of effective com- petition , with little capacity for government agencies to escape the pressures ( B. Peters 1995c , 35 ) . Moreover , government provision or regulation or both may be justified when the social risks involved are ...
Page 64
... deal of control over the decisions that determine their own fates . The assumption here is that decisions made in this manner will be objectively better , given the presumed higher levels of information possessed by the lower levels of ...
... deal of control over the decisions that determine their own fates . The assumption here is that decisions made in this manner will be objectively better , given the presumed higher levels of information possessed by the lower levels of ...
Page 94
... deal of personnel pol- icy to individual agencies ( Feller et al . 1995 ) . Several other countries also have been in the process of deregulating their personnel systems ( OECD 1990 ) . A number of countries have discarded many of their ...
... deal of personnel pol- icy to individual agencies ( Feller et al . 1995 ) . Several other countries also have been in the process of deregulating their personnel systems ( OECD 1990 ) . A number of countries have discarded many of their ...
Contents
Market Models for Reforming Government | 21 |
The Participatory State | 47 |
Flexible Government | 72 |
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