This collection provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of current research in the field of New Public Management (NPM) reform. Aimed primarily at a readership with a special interest in contemporary public-sector reforms, The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management offers a refreshing and up-to-date analysis of key issues of modern administrative reforms. This volume comprises a general introduction and twenty-nine chapters divided into six thematic sessions, each with chapters ranging across a variety of crucial topics in the field of New Public Management reforms and beyond. The principal themes to be addressed are: ยข
Author Biography:
Professor Tom Christensen, University of Oslo, Norway and Professor Per Laegreid, University of Bergen, Norway. Tom Christensen, Per Laegreid, Jonathan Boston, Peter Aucoin, Koen Verhoest, Nils Brunsson, John Halligan, Walter J.M. Kickert, Hanne Foss Hansen, Anthony B.L. Cheung, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Ivar Bleiklie, Jurgen Enders, Benedetto Lepori, Christine Musselin, Ian Bartle, Oliver James, Sandra van Thiel, Vital Put, Geert Bouckaert, Martin Painter, Thomas Pallesen, Carsten Greve, Graeme Hodge, Rhys Andrews, Paul G. Roness, Steven Van de Walle, Martin Marcussen, Torben Beck Jorgensen, Lotte Bogh Andersen, Janet Newman, B. Guy Peters, Robert Gregory, Jon Pierre, Bo Rothstein, Stephen P. Osborne.
