Improving Public Management

by Sue Richards and Les Metcalfe

Now in paperback in an Enlarged Edition, this volume explores the lessons of one of the most comprehensive attempts to improve public management.

Metcalfe and Richards describe and assess Thatcher′s Efficiency Strategy as an exercise in improving public management. They explain how the strategy has gone about improving administrative performance by increasing cost-consciousness in the use of resources and creating flexibility for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803984006
• ISBN13: 9780803984004
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"