The Enduring challenges in public management

The end of the Cold War, advances in information technology, and the many other global changes of the past decade have required managers to change their frame of reference. It is increasingly clear that, for management at all levels, the twenty-first century is going to be greatly different from present and past experience in governance and public administration. These profound changes will add completely new dimensions to the enduring challenges public managers continually face, involving accountability, democratic values, and productivity and efficiency. This timely book, sponsored by the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, brings together leading authorities from the United States and around the world to address the most critical issues facing the public sector today - how to reorganize, reengineer, revitalize, modernize, and innovate in government and how to adapt to an everchanging global political environment. In fifteen thoughtful chapters written especially for this book, respected scholars in the field of public administration discuss the challenges to productivity posed by the immediate and distant changes in our economic, political, and administrative env