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Growing the Productivity of Government Services by Dunleavy, Patrick & Carrera, Leandro is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Growing the Productivity of Government Services about?
'Carrera and Dunleavy provide a crystal clear and comprehensive account of the complex issues involved in how best to improve the productivity of government services. They offer a nuanced but powerful explanation of productivity puzzles, conundrums and dilemmas in the public sector. But they also offer solutions to many of these problems. Finally, I have found a text on public economics that makes sense, gives genuine management insights and offers real suggestions to practitioners as to what to do next.' - Barry Quirk, Chief Executive, London Borough of Lewisham, UK 'This book presents a welcome and sobering analysis of productivity performance in UK central government - a subject that has received remarkably little serious academic attention up to now, in spite of decades of general commentary on managerialism.' - Christopher Hood, All Souls College, UK 'Leandro Carrera and Patrick Dunleavy have performed an amazing feat in this book through their rigorous examination of a thorny topic that has dogged pundits and academics alike. Just how efficient is government and how well does it do its job? As a result of an impressive - but accessible - set of data analyses, the authors make
Who reads Growing the Productivity of Government Services?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Dunleavy, Patrick & Carrera, Leandro
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857934994
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Management, Political Science, Military