Both academics and practitioners have disagreed among themselves about whether and to what extent the developed world is witnessing a convergence in the forms of public management. Some of this disagreement may be attributed to the formidable empirical problems facing those who wish to make...

Throughout the Western world governments have been obliged to address the tension between the continuously rising cost of publicly-financed health care and the perceived need to restrain aggregate public expenditure. In several countries recent developments have included attempts to apply...

This paper addresses some fundamental questions concerning the nature of knowledge about public management reform, and particularly its transferability between countries and contexts. It's main point will be that knowledge of what works and what does not tends to be heavily context-dependent.