Contents:
Part One: Setting the Scene 1. Managers managing? The international trend towards agencies, quangos and contratualization
Colin Talbot 2. Patterns of structural change
Geert Bouckaert and
Guy B. Peters Part Two: Agencies, Quangos and Contracts in the Heartlands of the New Public Management 3. Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps'
Francesca Gains 4. Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK
Oliver James 5. Contracting and accountability: a model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience
Jocelyn Johnston and
Barbara Romzek 6. Contractualism and performance measurement in Australia
Linda McGuire 7. The agency concept in North America: failure, adaptation and incremental change
Andrew Graham and
Alasdair Roberts Part Three: Autonomization in Continental Europe and Japan 8. Quangos in Dutch government
Sandra van Thiel 9. Lost in translation? Shifting interpretations of the concept of 'agency': the Dutch case
Amanda Smullen 10. Central agencies in Sweden: a report from Utopia Jon Pierre
11. Agencification in Japan
Kiyoshi Yamamoto Part Four: Autonomization in the Developing and Transitional Countries 12. New Public management in a developing country: creating executive agencies in Tanzania
Janice Caulfield 13. Agencies in Thailand
Bidyha Bowornwathana 14. The design, performance and sustainability of semi-autonomous revenue authorities in Africa and Latin America
Robert R. Taliercio Jr 15. Castles built on sand? Agencies in Latvia
Christopher Pllitt 16. Agencies in Jamaica
Colin Talbot Part Five: Overview 17. Theoretical overview
Christopher Pollitt