Contents:
I. Theories and concepts of reform, innovation, and intervention in public management 1. One hundred theories of organizational change: the good, the bad, and the ugly - Lawrence B. Mohr 2. Theoretical foundations of policy intervention - Janet A. Weiss 3. Do goals help create innovative organizations? - Robert D. Behn 4. Innovation by legislative, judicial, and management desing: three arenas of public entrepreneurship - Nancy C. Roberts II. Reengineering, reform, and innovation as desing science: the roles of institutions and polical contexts 5. Where's the institutionalism and public management - Karen G. Evans and Gary L. Wamsley 6. Assessing public management reform with internal labor Market theory: a comparative assessment of cenge implementation - Lois R.Wise and Per Stengard 7. Good Budgetary decision processes - Patrick D. Larkey and Erik A. Devereux 8. Implementing mission-driven, results-oriented budgeting - Fred Thompson and Carol K. Johansen III. Tnovation and reform: organizational and bureaucratic factors 9. The pain of organizational change: managing reivention - Patricia W. Ingraham and Vernon Dale Jones 10. Institutional paradoxes: why welfare workers cannot reform welfare - Marcia K. Meyers and Nara Dillon 11. Contracting in: can government be a business? - Eric Welch and Stuart Brestchneider IV. Politics, governance, reform, and innovation 12. Interest groups in the rule-making process: who participates? Whose voices get heard? - Marissa Martino Golden 13. Dialogue between advocates and executive agencies: new roles for public management - Linda Kaboolian 14. Reiventing government: lesson from a state capital - Frances S. Berry, Richard Chackerian, and Barton Wechsler
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