Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Major Organizational Issues
1. The Machinery of Government: Concepts and Issues
2. The Search for Coordination and Control: When and How Are Central Agencies the Answer?
II. Cross-National Dimensions
3. Political and Bureaucratic Roles in Public Service Reorganization
4. The Growth of Government Organizations: Do We Count the Number or Weigh the Programs?
5. Policy Responses to Economic Stress and Decline in Anglo-Atlantic Democracies
III. Focus on Britain: Adversity and Decline
6. The Changing Administrative Culture in the British Civil Service
7. Demystifying Whitehall: The Great British Civil Service Debate, 1980s Style
8. The Rise and Fall and Rise of the Department of Trade and Industry
IV. Other National Experiences
9. Administrative Reform and Theories of Organization
10. The Centralization-Decentralization Tug-of-War in the New Executive Branch
11. Organizational Change in the Canadian Machinery of Government: From Rational Management to Brokerage Politics
12. Entrenching New Instruments for Government: The Case of Switzerland
13. Reforming Central Government Administration in Australia
14. Major Administrative Reform and Reorganization Efforts in Bangladesh, 1971-1985
Conclusion
Notes on Contributions