Introduction / John Diamond, Joyce Liddle -- ch. 1. The future of the discipline : trends in public sector management / Karen Johnston Miller -- ch. 2. Business and management schools in times of crisis and austerity : choices and dilemmas / Joyce Liddle, John Diamond -- ch. 3. Mainstreaming equality : challenges and opportunities for public management / Stuart Speeden -- ch. 4. Public sector management trends in Brazil / Ricardo C. Gomes, Humberto Falcão-Martins -- ch. 5. From reluctant to compelled reformers? : reflections on three decades of public management reform in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain / Edoardo Ongaro -- ch. 6. Double devolution at the crossroads? : lessons in delivering sustainable area decentralization / Lorraine Johnston -- ch. 7. Leadership, WTO, commerce, and new strategies for corporatization of government institutions : a top Indian bureaucrat's take / Guru Prakash Prabhakar, Pankaj Saran -- ch. 8. Public sector trends in Australia / Owen E. Hughes -- ch. 9. New professionalism and public sector management : a reflection on collaborative practice in UK teacher education / Linda Rush, John Diamond -- Conclusion : reflecting upon the past and anticipating the immediate / John Diamond, Joyce Liddle.

Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.

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