Table of Contents

Contents: Preface 1. The Internationalization of New Public Management 2. Should Flawed Models of Public Management be Exported? Issues and Practices 3. Administrative Reform in Core Civil Services: Application and Applicability of the New Public Management 4. New Public Management and Development: The Case of Public Service Reform in Tanzania and Uganda 5. Local Government: Management or Politics? 6. The NPM Agenda for Service Delivery: A Suitable Model for Developing Countries? 7. Reinventing the Third World State: Service Delivery and the Civic Realm 8. Privatization and Regulation in Developing Countries 9. Human Resource Management and New Public Management: Two Sides of a Coin that has a Low Value in Developing Countries? 10. Information Systems and Public Sector Reform in the Third World 11. Moving the Public Management Debate Forward: A Contingency Approach Index

About the Author

Edited by Willy McCourt, former Lecturer, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK and Martin Minogue, formerly Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Policy and Management and Director of the Regulatory Governance Research Programme, Centre on Regulation and Competition (CRC), University of Manchester, UK