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作者:Lee, Eliza W. Y.; Haque, M. Shamsul
作者单位:University of Hong Kong; National University of Singapore
摘要:This article compares the New Public Management (NPM) reform in Hong Kong and Singapore. First of all, it highlights how the macroeconomic environment, the political system, and state traditions, factors that are commonly identified as affecting the pattern of NPM reform in western liberal democracies, assume different contexts and significance in affecting reform in Asian states. With these general factors, we further compare the NPM reform of these two Asian newly industrialized countries in...
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作者:Barzelay, Michael; Gallego, Raquel
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要:Research on public management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on public management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on public management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. ...
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作者:Goldfinch, Shaun
作者单位:Autonomous University of Barcelona
摘要:In 2004, Japan restructured the state-directed public university system to create the national university corporations (NUCs). Proponents of the reforms made explicit mention of agentification in the United Kingdom, changes to university management structures elsewhere, and reforms in the wider Japanese public sector. As such, the NUC reforms are an example of policy transfer. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, however, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) h...
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作者:Levy, Traci
作者单位:Adelphi University