ABSTRACT
Effective management of public organizations – departments, agencies, bureaus, offices – is vital to the success of government programs, policies, and regimes, and perhaps even of democracy itself.1 Although generally accepted around the world, this seemingly sensible statement would have been only barely intelligible within the public administration profession as recently as the 1970s.2 From a subject widely regarded as “new” only a generation ago, public management is now a field of policy making, practice, and scholarship which enjoys international recognition. “Public management” and “public management reform,” along with concepts and terms of art associated with them, have entered the languages of practical politics, scholarship and instruction.
