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The New Governance And The Tools Of Public Action: An Introduction, Lester M. Salamon
The New Governance And The Tools Of Public Action: An Introduction, Lester M. Salamon
Fordham Urban Law Journal
A fundamental re-thinking is currently underway throughout the world about how to cope with public problems. Stimulated by popular frustrations with the cost and effectiveness of government programs and by a new-found faith in liberal economic theories, serious questions are being raised about the capabilities, and even the motivations, of public-sector institutions. This type of questioning has spread beyond American political discourse to other parts of the world. Underlying much of this reform surge is a set of theories that portrays government agencies as tightly structured hierarchies insulated from market forces and from effective citizen pressure and therefore free to …