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Reinventing government

Nature, 1993
DAVID J. HANSON, WIL LEPKOWSKI, JANICE R. LONG, PAMELA S. ZURER   +3 more
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'REINVENTING GOVERNMENT': BUT WILL IT WORK?

Public Administration, 1994
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Thematic Review: Reinventing governance, reinventing democracy?

Policy & Politics, 2009
Public service systems are transforming into market-like organisations of service delivery and in many countries there is experimentation with user boards, customer choice, and stakeholderism. Meanwhile, democratic governance looks surprisingly much like the way it did 25 or 50 years ago.
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Reinventing urban government in the Netherlands: an American perspective

International Journal of Public Administration, 2000
In this article, the Dutch and American authors examine a recent Dutch experience in reinventing a key urban service in Rotterdam. The study focus is on the creation of a public authority, the Urban Energy Corporation (UEC), to replace the former municipal electric power department.
Lips, A.M.B., Owen, C.J.
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Accountability In A ‘Reinvented’ Government

Public Administration, 1998
Whether ‘reinvented’ government implies worker empowerment, increased managerial discretion, or decentralization, it is widely thought to mean diminished accountability. A two‐dimensional typology (based on clarity of goals and certainty of cause‐effect knowledge) of decision‐making processes and their associated organizational structures is compared ...
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Reinventing the Proverbs of Government

Public Administration Review, 2000
The field of public administration has a long history of popular reform movements. Many of these reforms have failed to deliver the improvements promised. The current “reinventing government” reforms, which follow largely from the writings of David Osborne and his coauthors, claim to establish a new governmental paradigm based on liberating employees ...
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REINVENTING GOVERNMENT: A SYMPOSIUM

Public Administration, 1994
While the publication of ‘cult’ texts has become somewhat common place in the management world it is much more of a rarity in public administration. However, the success in the United States of David Osborne and Ted Gaebler's Reinventing Government 1992) may be a pointer to the emergence of an identifiable and coherent field of public management ...
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Reinventing Governments

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1995
The United Nations has assumed a prominent post-cold war role as an agent of democratic transitions in Third World states long torn by civil strife. Called “postconflict peace building” by the secretary general, this new brand of UN peacekeeping mission has seen notable success in countries such as El Salvador, Mozambique, Cambodia, and Namibia.
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Reinventing Local Governments and the E‐Government Initiative

Public Administration Review, 2002
The Internet provides a powerful tool for reinventing local governments. It encourages transformation from the traditional bureaucratic paradigm, which emphasizes standardization, departmentalization, and operational cost‐efficiency, to the “e‐government” paradigm, which emphasizes coordinated network building, external collaboration, and customer ...
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Reinventing the Federal Government

1994
The election of President Clinton, a president interested in issues of public management, has been widely interpreted as creating a favorable climate for reform of the federal government. Indeed, within two months of his inauguration he established the most extensive review of the federal government since the 1930s, under the direction of Vice ...
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