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Reinventing Government in Reformed Municipalities

Urban Affairs Review, 2001
The authors place reinventing government (REGO) efforts in the context of mayor-council municipalities. After briefly reviewing the emerging body of local government research on reinventing government, they address two principal research questions: First, what are the correlates and extent of REGO actions by managers, mayors, and city councils? Second,
Richard C Kearney, Carmine Scavo
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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 Government or Reinventing Ourselves: Two Models for Improving Government Performance

Public Administration Review, 1995
In this article, I analyze the Bureau of Municipal Research's concept of efficient citizenship as an alternative paradigm to customer-centered public administration. Reinventing government is a powerful buzz phrase these days both in the world of practical politics and academe.
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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 Government

Public Productivity & Management Review, 1993
DAVID J. HANSON, WIL LEPKOWSKI, JANICE R. LONG, PAMELA S. ZURER   +3 more
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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 Government

BMJ, 1994
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Russia: The Reinvention of Local Government?

1996
The ideological conflict between forces for and against reform in Russia represents only one dimension of the political crisis which has become the normal state of affairs in Russia since the re-introduction of democracy under Gorbachev in 1989–90. Of equal importance has been a parallel conflict over the nature of democracy and the distribution of ...
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