<title>Abstract</title> Beginning with the example of the National Health Service, this article analyses the phenomenon of very rapid, repeated re-structuring in UK public services. It asks, first, how far the unceasing reorganizations in healthcare are a unique case; second, how such serial changes can be...

<title>Abstract</title> This article examines the phenomenon of ‘magic’ concepts -- those key terms which seem to be pervasive among both academics and practitioners. Within that category our focus is on ‘governance’, ‘accountability’ and ‘networks’. Our prime purpose is to map their meanings...

<title/> This article argues that more systematic attention needs to be given to academic advice to managers and policy-makers. It explores the ‘third world’ of academic public management—the giving of advice by academics to politicians and public servants. It first focuses on the question of what...

In this paper I want to address some fundamental questions concerning the nature of knowledge about public management reform, and particularly its transferability between countries and contexts. My main point will be that knowledge of what works and what does not tends to be heavily...

The objective of this paper is to assess mechanisms to improve resource planning and allocation by integrating financial and budgetary management with performance management.

L’objectif de ce document est d’évaluer les mécanismes susceptibles d’améliorer la planification et l’affectation des ressources par le biais d’une intégration de la gestion financière et budgétaire et de la gestion des performances.