This major Handbook provides a state-of-the-art study of the recent history and future development of international public management reform.

This major Handbook provides a state-of-the-art study of the recent history and future development of international public management reform.

This major Handbook provides a state-of-the-art study of the recent history and future development of international public management reform.

The economic rationale for government intervention in a market economy has traditionally been provided by the theory of market failure. This article reviews the market failure paradigm in the light of the more recent literature on government failure. One implication of the theory of government...

<title>Abstract</title> As Ireland has followed other countries in modernizing its public sector according to the principles of ‘new public management’ (without introducing market mechanisms on the same scale as its Anglo-Saxon counterparts), the capacity of its public managers to supply the leadership...

Although comprehensive reform programs (CRPs) have been influenced by theories of government failure, they pose some puzzles for these theorists. My purpose is to address puzzles that relate to observed characteristics of the timing, radicalism, implementation, rhetoric and democratic...

Purpose – At present no satisfactory economic theory of non-profit organizational leadership exists. The purpose of this paper is to develop an economic theory of non-profit leadership and apply this theory to the problem of non-profit failure or “voluntary sector failure.”...