We decided to write this third edition of The Effective Public Manager principally to communicate what we have learned about public management in the past six years and to update the examples us…
At the request of the Dutch government, the OECD Secretariat conducted a study on the organisation of central government from the perspective of value for money. The Dutch government is interes…
During the writing of this book, I moved to a new job in Australia. This slowed down the writing of the book significantly but prompted some new reflections on policy dynamics and the incorporati…
The intent of this document is to provide a foundation for developing learning strategies and curriculum for public sector risk management. Effective risk management is critically important for th…
The broad topic addressed in this book – innovation in public services – is extremely important and little studied. Most of the research on innovation has been focused on innovation by privat…
This book is a joint effort by the members of the Centre for Public Management at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Even those researchers who did not author …
“Explores the current models of government reform across the world, examining the basic tool kit of reformers and probing the underlying issues of government management and the puzzles of govern…