Table of Contents

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 Managment 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
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Reviews

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.
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