Title International Public Administration Reform : Implications for the Russian Federation

Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 113 pages) : illustrations Series Directions in development Directions in development (Washington, D.C.) World Bank e-Library. Contents The Countries Selected -- Reformers' Concerns: What Was Broken? -- What Did They Want to Do? -- Reducing Public Expenditure -- Improving Policy Responsiveness and Implementation -- Improving Government as Employer -- Improving Service Delivery and Building Public and Private Sector Confidence -- Mapping Reformers' Concerns -- Reformers' Activities: What Did They Do? -- The Ingredients of Public Sector Reform -- "Basic" Reforms: Achieving or Strengthening Discipline -- "Advanced" Reforms -- Choices in Advanced Reforms -- Coherence of Reforms -- The Level of Reform Activity -- Reformers' Achievements: What Did They Gain? -- Results Are Difficult to Determine -- Reductions in Public Expenditure -- Efficiency Improvements -- Other Gains -- Unintended Consequences -- Reformers' Traction: Why Did They Do Different Things? -- A Model for Explaining Reform Activities -- Points of Leverage -- Institutional Malleability -- Mapping Reformers' Traction -- Explaining Patterns of Reform -- The Challenge for Low-Traction Reformers: How to Achieve Basic Reforms -- A Dilemma Facing Low-Traction Reformers -- Seizing Opportunities in Basic Public Expenditure Management Reforms -- Seizing Opportunities in Civil Service Personnel Management Reforms -- Seizing Opportunities in Reforming the Organizational Structure of the Executive -- Seizing Opportunities in Changing the Role and Policy Load Carried by Government -- Lessons from Low-Traction Countries Needing Basic Reforms -- Implications for the Russian Federation -- Realism and Managed Expectations -- First Things First -- Create More Traction -- Seize Opportunities -- Create Opportunities -- In Looking for Useful Experiences, Look for the Like-Minded -- Summaries of Individual Country Reform Experiences -- Reformers' Concerns: Methodological Note -- Points of Leverage for Reformers: Methodological Note -- Institutional Malleability: Methodological Note -- Australian Reform Concerns -- Reform Activities in China -- Reform Activities in Canada -- Associating Performance Information with the Budget in the United States -- Senior Executive Services in Australia, Hungary, and New Zealand -- Advanced Accounting Reforms in the Netherlands -- Budget Reform Activities in Finland -- The Civil Service in New Zealand -- An Unusual Case -- Reform Activities in Brazil -- Decentralization in Poland -- Contractual Arrangements within the U.K. Public Sector -- Reform Activities in Chile -- Australian Reform Activities -- Program Review in Canada -- Mixed Signals on Australian Efficiency Savings -- Mixed Reform Outcomes in the United Kingdom -- Unintended Consequences in the Netherlands -- Reform Management in New Zealand and the Republic of Korea -- Dispersed Reform Management in Canada -- Stronger Central Agency in Finland -- Cabinet Office in Australia -- Majority Government in Canada -- Organizational Heterogeneity in Brazil -- Federalism in Canada -- The Civil Service and the German Administrative Tradition -- Size of the Country and the Economy Relative to the Russian Federation -- Fiscal Decentralization -- Measures of Governance -- Reformers' Concerns -- The Elements of Basic and Advanced Reforms -- Reform Activities -- Reformers' Traction -- General Government Employment as Percentage of Total Employment -- Breadth of Reformers' Concerns -- Two Stages in Public Sector Reform -- Overall Reform Activity -- A Model for Explaining Reform Differences -- Reformers' Traction and Reform Activity -- Russia's Reformers in Context Summary Annotation This book examines the relevance and lessons of public sector reforms undertaken in a wide range of other countries over the last ten to fifteen years and provides practical suggestions for implementing public administration reform for policy makers and reformers in countries such as the Russian Federation Annotation Many countries have undertaken public administration reform projects over the last ten to fifteen years. This book analyzes the experiences and outcomes of these reforms. The analysis starts with A"what was brokenA?; and then moves on to assess what reformers actually did and what they achieved and why reformers faced with similar problems in different countries in fact did very different things. The conclusion is that the level and type of reform activity was determined primarily by the degree of traction available to reformers - the leverage available to reformers and the malleability of basic public sector institutions. In some countries reformers had considerable leverage and were able to launch comprehensive reform programs relatively quickly. In other countries with low traction and with comparatively complex constitutional arrangements for public sector architecture, implementing public administration reform appears to be particularly problematic. A number of practical suggestions for approaches to implementing public administration reform are then identified for policy makers and reformers in low traction countries such as the Russian Federation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-107) and index Notes Print version record Subject Public administration -- Cross-cultural studies Civil service reform -- Cross-cultural studies Civil service reform -- Russia (Federation) Administrative agencies -- Reorganization -- Cross-cultural studies POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration. Civil service reform -- Russia (Federation) Public administration. Civil service reform. Administrative agencies -- Reorganization Civil service reform Public administration Administration publique. Fonction publique. Réforme. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. PUBLIC EXPENDITURES. RUSSIAN FEDERATION. CASE STUDIES. Russia (Federation) Russie. Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Étude comparée (Descripteur de forme) Form Electronic book Author Parison, Neil, 1957- LC no. 2003053833 ISBN 9780821355725 0821355724 0585479674 9780585479675 1280086416 9781280086410 6610086419 9786610086412

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