Assessment of public management reform and strategy / Kuno Schedler, Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari -- Rethinking accountability in education : how should who hold whom accountable for what? / Robert D. Behn -- Development of contracting in infrastructure investment in the U.K. : the private finance initiative in the national health service / Jane Broadbent, Jas Gill, Richard Laughlin -- Stakeholder theory, partnerships and alliances in the health care sector of the U.K. and Scotland / Alexander Murdock -- Strategies for health care reform implementation in Southern Italy / Marco Meneguzzo, Valentina Mele, Angelo Tanese -- Managing the e-government organization / Kuno Schedler, Bernhard Schmidt -- Reform of public management through ICT : interface, accountability and transparency / Hiroko Kudo -- Risk, reform and organizational culture : the case of IRS tax systems modernization / Barry Bozeman -- Management control reform in the public sector : contrasting the USA and Italy / Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari -- Political corruption : establishing the parameters / Peter deLeon, Mark T. Green -- Supply-side control of corruption : the U.S. foreign corrupt practices act and the OECD convention / Masako N. Darrough -- Coping with corruption in Albanian public administration and business / Denita Cepiku -- Reducing corruption in post-communist countries / Alexander Kotchegura -- A conceptual framework and methodological guide for research on public management policy change in the Latin American region / Michael Barzelay, Francisco Gaetani, Juan Carlos Cortázar Velarde, Guillermo Cejudo -- Developing performance indicators and measurement systems in public institutions / Kuno Schedler -- Evaluation of new public management reforms in Switzerland : empirical results and reflections on methodology / Stefan Rieder, Luzia Lehmann -- Measuring and managing for performance : lessons from Australia / Bill Ryan -- Assessing public management reform strategy in an international context / Lawrence R. Jones, Donald F. Kettl.

This book is unique in that it explores public sector reform from a strategic management perspective. The authors whose work is represented in the book examine seven strategies for public management reform: (1) increases in accountability, (2) decentralization and delegation of authority and responsibility for decision making and management, (3) application of information technology to improve management and responsiveness of governments to citizens, (4) developing and improving management control systems in the public sector, (5) measures to reduce corruption in government, business and society, (6) development and use of performance indicators, and (7) integration of performance measurement and management in public organizations. Authors address the need for and application of various strategies, and impediments to implementation of each strategy. Case analysis is used to derive findings and conclusions.

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