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Public Policy and Management Working Papers

Please note : this working paper series has been discontinued and archived . This means that no more papers will be published in the series, and that users should refer directly to the paper's authors for further information on particular papers.

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Working Papers

Number	Title
17/2001	Commitment to Civil Service Reform in Swaziland (Willy McCourt)
16/2001	Why Civil Service Reforms Fail (Charles Polidano)
15/2000	Should Flawed Models of Public Management be Exported?: Issues and Practices (Martin Minogue)
14/1999	Power to the People?: Good Governance and the Reshaping of the State (Martin Minogue)
13/1999	The New Public Management in Developing Countries (Charles Polidano)
12/1999	Measuring Public Sector Capacity (Charles Polidano)
11/1999	'An Exocet in a Red Box': Competing Avenues of Accountability in the Sandline Affair (Charles Polidano)
10/1998	Towards a Strategic Model of Employment Reform in Developing Countries: Explaining and Remedying Experience to Date (Willy McCourt)
9/1998	Don't Discard State Autonomy: Revisiting the East Asian Experience of Development (Charles Polidano)
8/1998	The New Public Selection?: Competing Approaches to the Development of the Public Service Commission of Nepal (Willy McCourt)
7/1998	Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China: Recent Trends and Current Policy Issues (John Henley, Colin Kirkpatrick and Georgina Wilde)
6/1998	Is Good Governance a Universal Value? (Martin Minogue)
5/1998	Regulating the Water Industry: Swimming Against the Tide, or Going Through the Motions? (Richard Schofield and Jean Shaoul)
4/1998	Changing the State: Concepts and Practice in the Reform of the Public Sector (Martin Minogue)
3/1997	Privatisation: Trends and Future Policy (Paul Cook and Colin Kirkpatrick)
2/1997	The Toothless and the Muzzled: Public Accountability, Public Expenditure Management and Governance in Sri Lanka (David Hulme and Nimal Sanderatne)
1/1997	The Bureaucrat Who Fell Under a Bus: Ministerial Responsibility, Executive Agencies and the Derek Lewis Affair in Britain (Charles Polidano)