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Public Management Reform: Reliable Knowledge and International Experience

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In this paper I want to address some fundamental questions concerning the nature of knowledge about public management reform, and particularly its transferability between countries and contexts. My main point will be that knowledge of what works and what does not tends to be heavily contextdependent. That is to say, a technique or organisational structure which succeeds in one place may fail in another. So – to put it bluntly – there is no set of general tools that can be transferred from one jurisdiction to another, all around the world, with confidence that they will work well every time. This means we have to look carefully at contexts, and at the “terms of trade” each time we are thinking of borrowing a good management idea from somewhere else. This is not a “how-to-do-it” paper. Rather it is a series of reflections on the nature of the “trade” in public management reforms, drawing on the existing academic literature and seeking to identify issues where further work seems to be desirable...

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  • Christopher Pollitt, 2003. "Public Management Reform: Reliable Knowledge and International Experience," OECD Journal on Budgeting, OECD Publishing, vol. 3(3), pages 121-134.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:govkaa:5lmqcr2jgkwg
    DOI: 10.1787/budget-v3-art19-en
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    1. Javed Miraj & Zhuquan Wang, 2021. "Factors Influencing the Implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards in Pakistan," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 14(9), pages 1-15, July.
    2. Gellén Márton, 2014. "From Overdecentralization to Overcentralization ? Hungarian Experience in Handling the Crisis at the Local Level," NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, Sciendo, vol. 7(2), pages 51-69, December.
    3. Satu Kalliola & Tuula Heiskanen & Riikka Kivimäki, 2019. "What Works in Democratic Dialogue?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(3), pages 1-20, March.
    4. Marton Gellen, 2021. "Development Through Intervention? Revisiting Criticism Of Hungarian Democracy," Public administration issues, Higher School of Economics, issue 6, pages 84-102.
    5. Mark Christensen, 2007. "What We Might Know (But Aren't Sure) About Public-Sector Accrual Accounting," Australian Accounting Review, CPA Australia, vol. 17(41), pages 51-65, March.

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