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The Limits of Reinventing Government

The American Review of Public Administration, 1998
When introduced, reinventing government promised significant changes in government performance. Juxtaposed against that theory is one presented by rebounderss," which demands a return to a constitutional grounding in governance. This article suggests that each has significant limitations that can best be understood by examining the other. Accordingly,
Gregory D. Russell, Robert J. Waste
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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 has success stories

Chemical & Engineering News Archive, 1994
Vice President Al Gore handed President Bill Clinton a 12-month status report on his National Performance Review (NPR), colloquially known as the reinventing government project, on Sept. 14. The 168-page NPR contained some 400 specific recommendations for changing how the federal government operates.
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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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Reinventing and Redesigning Local Government

2017
The book Reinventing Government challenged practitioners and scholars to re-examine how local governments are designed and managed. David Morgan’s Urban Management text from 1989 provides a rough indicator of the state of the field at the time the research for Reinventing Government was underway.
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Reinventing Local and Metropolitan Government

Public Administration Review, 2007
sector, and a stronger sense of community. Research also shows that communities with higher levels of social capital and citizen participation have governments that are higher performing and more responsive to the public they serve. There is evidence that communities rich in social connectedness and civic engagement produce better schools, lower crime,
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Reinventing Government: The European Experience

1997
Throughout Western Europe, governments have recognised the importance of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector in response to economic and financial pressures, consumer demands for better public services and other forces. In the words of two observers, ‘a desire for management reform has been sweeping across the public sector ...
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Reinventing government

Long Range Planning, 1994
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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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