Managerialism in the Public Sector

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this book is to offer insights into the complex and often unclear context of public sector management, providing a newer theoretical and practical approach to the analysis and interpretation of these issues. The book is grounded in the awareness that the public sector has too often shown inefficiencies, despite the bloody expensive measures that have been undertaken, and from manifold perspectives such as the economic, social, organizational, and institutional ones, among others.

Behind the failures of public sector management, it is possible to recognize classic bureaucratic problems, in spite of actions at multiple levels, and from both theoretical and practical perspectives, to search for solutions.

The current ...