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100	1		_916671 _aMoynihan, Donald P.
245	1	0	_aHomeland security and the U.S. public management policy agenda
260			_aMalden, MA : _bWiley-Blackwell, _cApril 2005
520	3		_aThe U.S. has been described as an "uninteresting laggard" in comparative public management policy. The passage of the Homeland Security Act in 2002 demands a reevaluation of this label. The Act created the Department of Homeland Security, but also marked a dramatic shift toward greater public personnel flexibility, both for the new Department and the entire federal government. It is tempting to suggest that the Act is an effort to "catch up" with the New Public Management benchmark countries. However, such an argument is overly simplistic and misleading. This article argues that the Act represents a triumph of a preexisting management agenda that was successfully tied to the issue of security during a political window of opportunity. The management agenda of the Bush administration pursues many of the concerns of the Clinton era, but does so with a more top-down and centralized interpretation of flexibility, reflecting an executive-centered philosophy toward government and a willingness to tackle the dominant stakeholder in this area, public service unions
773	0	8	_tGovernance : an international journal of policy, administration, and institutions _g18, 2, p. 171-196 _dMalden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, April 2005 _xISSN 09521895 _w
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999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c28586 _d28586
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