International Public Administration Reform : Implications for the Russian Federation.
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Table of Contents:
- The Countries Selected
- Reformers' Concerns: What Was Broken?
- What Did They Want to Do?
- Reducing Public Expenditure
- Improving Policy Responsiveness and Implementation
- Improving Government as Employer
- Improving Service Delivery and Building Public and Private Sector Confidence
- Mapping Reformers' Concerns
- Reformers' Activities: What Did They Do?
- The Ingredients of Public Sector Reform
- "Basic" Reforms: Achieving or Strengthening Discipline
- "Advanced" Reforms
- Choices in Advanced Reforms
- Coherence of Reforms
- The Level of Reform Activity
- Reformers' Achievements: What Did They Gain?
- Results Are Difficult to Determine
- Reductions in Public Expenditure
- Efficiency Improvements
- Other Gains
- Unintended Consequences
- Reformers' Traction: Why Did They Do Different Things?
- A Model for Explaining Reform Activities
- Points of Leverage
- Institutional Malleability
- Mapping Reformers' Traction
- Explaining Patterns of Reform
- The Challenge for Low-Traction Reformers: How to Achieve Basic Reforms
- A Dilemma Facing Low-Traction Reformers
- Seizing Opportunities in Basic Public Expenditure Management Reforms
- Seizing Opportunities in Civil Service Personnel Management Reforms
- Seizing Opportunities in Reforming the Organizational Structure of the Executive
- Seizing Opportunities in Changing the Role and Policy Load Carried by Government
- Lessons from Low-Traction Countries Needing Basic Reforms
- Implications for the Russian Federation
- Realism and Managed Expectations
- First Things First
- Create More Traction
- Seize Opportunities
- Create Opportunities
- In Looking for Useful Experiences, Look for the Like-Minded
- Summaries of Individual Country Reform Experiences
- Reformers' Concerns: Methodological Note
- Points of Leverage for Reformers: Methodological Note
- Institutional Malleability: Methodological Note
- Australian Reform Concerns
- Reform Activities in China
- Reform Activities in Canada
- Associating Performance Information with the Budget in the United States
- Senior Executive Services in Australia, Hungary, and New Zealand
- Advanced Accounting Reforms in the Netherlands
- Budget Reform Activities in Finland
- The Civil Service in New Zealand
- An Unusual Case
- Reform Activities in Brazil
- Decentralization in Poland
- Contractual Arrangements within the U.K. Public Sector
- Reform Activities in Chile
- Australian Reform Activities
- Program Review in Canada
- Mixed Signals on Australian Efficiency Savings
- Mixed Reform Outcomes in the United Kingdom
- Unintended Consequences in the Netherlands
- Reform Management in New Zealand and the Republic of Korea
- Dispersed Reform Management in Canada
- Stronger Central Agency in Finland
- Cabinet Office in Australia
- Majority Government in Canada
- Organizational Heterogeneity in Brazil
- Federalism in Canada
- The Civil Service and the German Administrative Tradition
- Size of the Country and the Economy Relative to the Russian Federation
- Fiscal Decentralization
- Measures of Governance
- Reformers' Concerns
- The Elements of Basic and Advanced Reforms
- Reform Activities
- Reformers' Traction
- General Government Employment as Percentage of Total Employment
- Breadth of Reformers' Concerns
- Two Stages in Public Sector Reform
- Overall Reform Activity
- A Model for Explaining Reform Differences
- Reformers' Traction and Reform Activity
- Russia's Reformers in Context.