1st Edition
Reasserting the Public in Public Services New Public Management Reforms
1. Introduction: Reasserting the Role of the State in Public Services - M. Ramesh and Eduardo Araral, Jr. 2. The Role of the State in Governing: Governance and Metagovernance - B. Guy Peters 3. Reversing Privatization, Rebalancing Government Reform: Markets, Deliberation and Planning - Mildred Warner 4. Why Legality cannot be Contracted Out: Exploring the Limits of New Public Management - Jon Pierre 5. How Far Has Market Orientation Penetrated Public Organisations? An Empirical Test On Customer Satisfaction - Richard M. Walker 6. Repositioning the State and the Public Sector Reform Agenda: The Case of Hong Kong - Anthony B. L. Cheung 7. Reassertions of the State in Viet Nam's Health Sector - Jonathan D. London 8. Reasserting the Role of the State in the Healthcare Sector: Lessons from Asia - M. Ramesh 9. Reasserting the Public in Public Service Delivery: The De-privatization and De-marketization of Education in China - Martin Painter & Ka Ho Mok 10. Planning For Power: Lessons from Three Generations of Brazilian Electricity Reforms - Paul A. Barter 11. Public Planning with Business Delivery of Urban Public Transport - Sunil Tankha 12. The Fiscal and Efficiency Hypothesis of Water Utilities Privatization: A Review of the Evidence - Eduardo Araral 13. Conclusion: Contradictions, Contingencies and the Terrain Ahead - Scott A. Fritzen and Wu Xun
Biography
M. Ramesh is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Welfare Capitalism in Southeast Asia; Social Policy in East and Southeast Asia and co-author of Studying Public Policy. Eduardo Araral and Xun Wu are faculty members at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
