Democracy and Public Management Reform: Building the Republican State

Contents......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
PART I: THE RISE OF THE MODERN STATE......Page 24
1. Historical Forms of State......Page 26
A Long Historical Process......Page 27
The Stages of the State......Page 29
2. Absolute State and Patrimonial Administration......Page 34
3. The Liberal State and Civil Service Reform......Page 40
Civil Service Reform in Prussia......Page 43
Civil Service Reform in Britain......Page 45
Civil Service Reform in France......Page 47
Civil Service Reform in the United States......Page 48
4. The Transition to Liberal Democracy......Page 54
Two New Arguments for Democracy......Page 55
Other Rational Motives......Page 58
Liberal Democracy Becomes a Reality......Page 61
5. The Social-Democratic State......Page 66
Social or Plural Democracy......Page 69
Four Models of Capitalism......Page 73
A Developmental Bureaucracy......Page 77
6. The Crisis of the Social-Democratic State......Page 80
The Crisis of the 1980s......Page 81
Different Responses to the Crisis......Page 83
The Crisis of the State Defined......Page 85
The Cycles of the State......Page 87
7. The Global System and the State......Page 92
The Global System and ‘Globalism’......Page 94
Global Markets Require Strong States......Page 98
8. The Emergence of Republican Rights......Page 102
Republican Rights......Page 104
Threats, Overlapping Consensus, and the Public Interest......Page 108
Defenders and Offenders......Page 110
9. The Social-Liberal State......Page 116
Social Liberalism as a Synthesis of Liberalism and Social Democracy......Page 118
Contracting Out Social Services......Page 122
More Market Allocation and More Regulation......Page 125
10. The Republican State......Page 128
Republican Ideals......Page 131
Republicanism and Liberalism......Page 133
The Cost of Rights......Page 137
The Capacity to Tax......Page 140
From Aristocratic Republicanism to Republican Democracy......Page 144
Republican, Participatory, or Deliberative Democracy?......Page 146
Social Accountability and the Republican Democracy......Page 153
PART II: REFORMING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION......Page 158
12. Bureaucratic and Civil Service Reform......Page 160
Bureaucratic Administration\'s Intrinsic Irrationality......Page 161
The Rise of Public Management......Page 163
The Persistence of Bureaucratic Administration......Page 166
13. Public Management Reform in Practice......Page 170
Public Management Reform in Britain......Page 173
Public Management Reform in New Zealand......Page 177
Public Management Reform in Australia......Page 178
Public Management Reform in the United States......Page 180
Public Management Reform in Sweden......Page 183
Public Management Reform in France......Page 184
Reform in Latin America......Page 185
The Brazilian 1995/1998 Public Management Reform......Page 192
The Sequencing Question......Page 197
14. Public Management Reform Defined......Page 200
Defining Characteristics......Page 202
Bureaucrats\' Accountability......Page 207
The Logic of the Range of Accountability Mechanisms......Page 210
Forms of Property......Page 214
Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Activities......Page 216
The Matrix......Page 219
The Resulting Size of the State Organization......Page 223
16. Devolution and Decentralization......Page 226
17. Executive and Regulatory Agencies......Page 232
Administrative Autonomy......Page 233
Judicial and Political Autonomy......Page 235
Autonomy or Insulation?......Page 237
18. Social Organizations......Page 242
19. Managing from the Strategic Core......Page 250
Strategic Plan......Page 251
Management Strategies......Page 252
Management Contracts......Page 255
PART III: A DISCUSSION OF THE REFORM......Page 258
20. Theoretical Approaches to New Public Management......Page 260
The Political Approach......Page 261
Public Choice......Page 264
Organization Theory......Page 269
A Neo-Liberal Reform?......Page 274
Ranson and Stewart\'s Critique......Page 276
A Necessarily Democratic Reform......Page 280
The Economic and the Democratic Constraints......Page 283
Autonomy and Morality......Page 286
Conclusion......Page 290
References......Page 296
B......Page 320
C......Page 321
E......Page 322
G......Page 323
L......Page 324
M......Page 325
P......Page 326
R......Page 327
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U......Page 329
Z......Page 330