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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 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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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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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 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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