Subject: Political Science Book Title: Democracy and Public Management Reform
Democracy and Public Management Reform
Building the Republican State
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos
, Professor of Political Economy at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation
Print publication date: 2004
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926118-5
doi:10.1093/0199261180.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926118-5
doi:10.1093/0199261180.001.0001
Abstract:
The two major political institutions acting in modern democracies–civil society and the state–assume new ways of relating among themselves, thereby producing new democratic governance. Discusses two aspects of this global change: the republican democracy that is emerging in the twenty-first century and public management reform. The objective of this reform is to increase state capacity, to create a ‘strong state’: able to produce representative and accountable democratic governments; able to protect civil rights and assure markets, and so liberal; able to promote social justice, and so social; able to resist corruption and rent seeking, and thus republican. Starts from the assumption that, just as only a strong civil society may guarantee democracy, only a strong state may assure competitive markets. Defines the words ‘nation-state’ (or ‘country’), state, and civil society.
Keywords: civil society, governance, nation-state, public management reform, republican democracy, state
Keywords: civil society, governance, nation-state, public management reform, republican democracy, state
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Historical Forms of State
2. Absolute State and Patrimonial Administration
3. The Liberal State and Civil Service Reform
4. The Transition to Liberal Democracy
5. The Social-Democratic State
6. The Crisis of the Social-Democratic State
7. The Global System and the State
8. The Emergence of Republican Rights
9. The Social-Liberal State
10. The Republican State
11. Republican Democracy
12. Bureaucratic and Civil Service Reform
13. Public Management Reform in Practice
14. Public Management Reform Defined
15. The Basic Model
16. Devolution and Decentralization
17. Executive and Regulatory Agencies
18. Social Organizations
19. Managing from the Strategic Core
20. Theoretical Approaches to New Public Management
21. Critics of Reform
22. The Democratic Constraint
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0199261180.001.0001
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