Contesting Public Sector Reforms

Introduction: Public Sector Management and the Neo-Liberal Hegemony; P.Dibben, I.Roper & G.Wood PART ONE: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM: THEORETICAL DEBATES Public Choice, the Public Sector and the Market: The Sound of One Hand Clapping?; A.Van den Berg New Public Management: Marketization, Managerialism and Consumerism; P.Dibben & P.Higgins Uneasy Partners: Democratization and New Public Management in Developing Countries; B.Baker Taming the Market: Co-ordination of Economic Activity at Multiple Spatial Levels; J.Rogers Hollingsworth PART TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS: ISSUES AND PRACTICES Ethics and the New Public Management: Challenges and Alternatives; G.Wood Mechanisms and Values in the Delivery of a Patchwork of Public Services; J.Harrow Industrial Relations in the Public Sector: Collective Bargaining Reform and the Issue of Convergence; P.James Managing Quality in Public Services: Some Distinct Implications for the Reorganization of Work; I.Roper PART THREEE: PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT:REGIONAL AND NATIONAL STUDIES Canadian Public Management Developments; Z.Lonti & A.Verma Hollowing and Hardening New Zealand's Homely State; R.Gregory New Public Management and Europeanization: Convergence or Nestedness?; G.Wood Recruiting and Training the New Cadre: Reform of the Civil Service in the People's Republic of China; J.Liu & J.Wang Contradictions Confronting New Public Management in Johannesburg: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Water Commercialization; P.Bond Latin America: Globalization Democracy and State Reform; R.Munck Public Administration and the Management of Socio-Economic Development in Developing Countries: Some Trends and Comparisons; M.Wallis Conclusion: Towards the Revitalization of the Public?; G.Wood & I.Roper

BRUCE BAKER Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the African Studies Centre at Coventry University, UKPATRICK BOND Political Economist and Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management in Johannesburg, South AfricaROBERT GREGORY Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration in the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandJENNY HARROW Professor of Voluntary Sector Management, Cass Business School, City UniversityPAUL HIGGINS Lecturer in Public Sector Management and Employee Relations at Middlesex University Business School, UKJ. ROGERS HOLLINGSWORTH Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Wisconsin, USAJONTHAN LIU Professor of Chinese Management at Middlesex University Business School, UKZSUZSANNA LONTI Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandRONALDO MUNCK Professor of Political Sociology and Director of the Globalization and Social Exclusion Unit at the University of Liverpool, UKANIL VERMA Professor of Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Toronto, CanadaAXEL VAN DEN BERG Professor of Sociology at McGill University, CanadaMALCOLM WALLIS Professor of Public Administration at the Durban Institute for Technology, South AfricaJANE WANG Senior Administrator for the Study Tours Programme at Middlesex University Business School, UK