Democracy and Public Management Reform

Written by a distinguished Brazilian academic with effective political experience in reforming the state, this is an innovative analysis of the effects of public management reform on the new state of the twenty-first century. The result is essential reading for all those with an interest in globalization, the politics of the state, and government reform.

Introduction

1

(12)

PART I THE RISE OF THE MODERN STATE

1. Historical Forms of State

13

(8)

A Long Historical Process

14

(2)

The Stages of the State

16

(5)

2. Absolute State and Patrimonial Administration

21

(6)

3. The Liberal State and Civil Service Reform

27

(14)

Civil Service Reform in Prussia

30

(2)

Civil Service Reform in Britain

32

(2)

Civil Service Reform in France

34

(1)

Civil Service Reform in the United States

35

(6)

4. The Transition to Liberal Democracy

41

(12)

Two New Arguments for Democracy

42

(3)

Other Rational Motives

45

(3)

Liberal Democracy Becomes a Reality

48

(5)

5. The Social-Democratic State

53

(14)

Social or Plural Democracy

56

(4)

Four Models of Capitalism

60

(4)

A Developmental Bureaucracy

64

(3)

6. The Crisis of the Social-Democratic State

67

(12)

The Crisis of the 1980's

68

(2)

Different Responses to the Crisis

70

(2)

The Crisis of the State Defined

72

(2)

The Cycles of the State

74

(5)

7. The Global System and the State

79

(10)

The Global System and 'Globalism'

81

(4)

Global Markets Require Strong States

85

(4)

8. The Emergence of Republican Rights

89

(14)

Republican Rights

91

(4)

Threats, Overlapping Consensus, and the Public Interest

95

(2)

Defenders and Offenders

97

(6)

9. The Social-Liberal State

103

(12)

Social Liberalism as a Synthesis of Liberalism and Social Democracy

105

(4)

Contracting Out Social Services

109

(3)

More Market Allocation and More Regulation

112

(3)

10. The Republican State

115

(16)

Republican Ideals

118

(2)

Republicanism and Liberalism

120

(4)

The Cost of Rights

124

(3)

The Capacity to Tax

127

(4)

11. Republican Democracy

131

(16)

From Aristocratic Republicanism to Republican Democracy

131

(2)

Republican, Participatory, or Deliberative Democracy?

133

(7)

Social Accountability and the Republican Democracy

140

(7)

PART II REFORMING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

12. Bureaucratic and Civil Service Reform

147

(10)

Bureaucratic Administration's Intrinsic Irrationality

148

(2)

The Rise of Public Management

150

(3)

The Persistence of Bureaucratic Administration

153

(4)

13. Public Management Reform in Practice

157

(30)

Public Management Reform in Britain

160

(4)

Public Management Reform in New Zealand

164

(1)

Public Management Reform in Australia

165

(2)

Public Management Reform in the United States

167

(3)

Public Management Reform in Sweden

170

(1)

Public Management Reform in France

171

(1)

Reform in Latin America

172

(7)

The Brazilian 1995/1998 Public Management form

179

(5)

The Sequencing Question

184

(3)

14. Public Management Reform Defined

187

(14)

Defining Characteristics

189

(5)

Bureaucrats' Accountability

194

(3)

The Logic of the Range of Accountability Mechanisms

197

(4)

15. The Basic Model

201

(12)

Forms of Property

201

(2)

Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Activities

203

(3)

The Matrix

206

(4)

The Resulting Size of the State Organization

210

(3)

16. Devolution and Decentralization

213

(6)

17. Executive and Regulatory Agencies

219

(10)

Administrative Autonomy

220

(2)

Judicial and Political Autonomy

222

(2)

Autonomy or Insulation?

224

(5)

18. Social Organizations

229

(8)

19. Managing from the Strategic Core

237

(10)

Strategic Plan

238

(1)

Management Strategies

239

(3)

Management Contracts

242

(5)

PART III A DISCUSSION OF THE REFORM

20. Theoretical Approaches to New Public Management

247

(14)

The Political Approach

248

(3)

Public Choice

251

(5)

Organization Theory

256

(5)

21. Critics of Reform

261

(6)

A Neo-Liberal Reform?

261

(2)

Ranson and Stewart's Critique

263

(4)

22. The Democratic Constraint

267

(10)

A Necessarily Democratic Reform

267

(3)

The Economic and the Democratic Constraints

270

(3)

Autonomy and Morality

273

(4)

Conclusion

277

(6)

References

283

(24)

Index

307

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Democracy and Public Management Reform Building the Republican State

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