Democracy and Public Management Reform Building the Republican State [Hardcover]

Written by a distinguished Brazilian academic with effective political experience in reforming the state, this is an innovative analysis of the effects of public management reform on the new state of the twenty-first century. The result is essential reading for all those with an interest in globalization, the politics of the state, and government reform.

Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Rise of the Modern State
1. Historical Forms of State
2. From the Absolute to the Liberal, and to the Liberal-Democratic State
3. From the Liberal to the Social Democratic State
4. The Crisis of the Social-Democratic State
5. The Emergence of Republican Rights
6. Globalization and the Need for a Strong State
7. The New Social-Liberal and Republican State
Part II: Reforming Public Administration
8. Bureaucratic and Civil Service Reform
9. Public Management Reform in Practice
Part III: Public Management Reform
10. Public Management Reform
11. The Basic Model
12. Devolution and Decentralization
13. Autonomous Agencies
14. Social Organizations
15. Managing from the Strategic Core
16. The Range of Control Mechanisms
Part IV: Theories and the Reform
17. Theoretical-Ideological Orientations
18. Public Choice and Organization Theory
19. The Reform's Critics
Part V: The Politics of Reform
20. The Democratic Constraint
21. Bureaucrats' Autonomy and Accountability
Conclusion: Democratic, Liberal, Social, and Republican
References

The world needs talented visionaries, steeped in scholarship and engrossed in practice, such as Bresser-Pereira, a highly regarded intellectual and practitioner of public management and a former (1995-98) minister of reform of Brazil. Highly recommended. --CHOICE