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    Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past

    Christopher Pollitt

    In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the…

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    The Essential Public Manager

    Christopher Pollitt

    Provides an overview of such topics as the differences and similarities between public and private sector management, the development of networks and partnerships, the impacts of politics and citizen participation…

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    Controlling Health Professionals

    HARRISON,Christopher Pollitt

    Offers an explanation of the Thatcher government’s approach to improving the management of the NHS through the controlling of health professionals. This book examines in detail the various methods of…

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    Quality Improvement in European Public Services: Concepts, Cases and Commentary

    The quality of public services has become a major focus of attention, but most material available is on how to achieve quality in private-sector contexts or confined to a single…

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    Quality Improvement in European Public Services: Concepts, Cases and Commentary

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    Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    Discusses the series of changes in governmental systems and structures. These essays consider countries which have most enthusiastically embraced the New Public Management and also the governmental structures of transitional…

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    Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation

    This comprehensive study discusses the series of changes in governmental systems and structures. It considers the varying approaches of different countries and their governmental structures.

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    Advances in Laminitis, Part I, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice

    Christopher C. Pollitt

    Includes such articles as: the Anatomy and Physiology of the Lamellar; Dermal-Epidermal Interface; Carbohydrate Alimentary Overload Laminitis; Events in the Hindgut; Therapeutic Hypothermia (cryotherapy) to Prevent and Treat Acute Laminitis…

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    New Perspectives on Public Services: Place and Technology

    Christopher Pollitt (Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, Catholic University Of Leuven)

    The book examines two elements, place and technology, that are under-researched in the public management literature. It shows how basic public services both shape and are shaped by the specifics…

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    New Perspectives on Public Services: Place and Technology

    Christopher Pollitt (Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, Catholic University Of Leuven)

    The book examines two elements, place and technology, that are under-researched in the public management literature. It shows how basic public services both shape and are shaped by the specifics…

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    Decentralising Public Service Management

    Johnston Birchall,Keith Putman,Christopher Pollitt,Keith Putman

    This book offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis of the origins and results of decentralised public management in the UK.

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    Decentralising Public Service Management

    Johnston Birchall,Keith Putman,Christopher Pollitt,Keith Putman

    The authors show that behind the ministerial rhetoric the experiences of NHS trusts, grant maintained schools and housing associations were in practice distinctly mixed. The book offers an analysis of…

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    Quality Matters: Seeking Confidence in Evaluating, Auditing, and Performance Reporting

    Christopher Pollitt

    Information–regular, systematic, reliable–is the life-blood of democracy and the fuel of effective management. This pioneering study analyzes practices for assuring the quality of evaluation, performance auditing, and reporting in the…

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    Oxford Handbook of Public Management

    This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues in Public Management. The individual chapters include a mix of broad overviews, in depth exploration of particular…

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    The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

    Brings together international scholars to comment on key issues in Public Management. The chapters in this book include overviews, exploration of particular thematic areas and analyses of different theoretical perspectives…

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    The Illustrated Horse’s Foot: A comprehensive guide

    Christopher C. Pollitt (Reader in Equine Medicine, Department of Companion Animal Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine)

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    Advances in Laminitis, Part II, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice

    Christopher C. Pollitt (Reader in Equine Medicine, Department of Companion Animal Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine)

    Deals with laminitis, one of the most challenging diseases for the equine clinician to treat. This title includes articles such as: endocrinopathic metabolism, equine metabolic syndrome, hyperinsulinemic laminitis, pasture associated…

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    Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    Christopher Pollitt (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven University),Geert Bouckaert (Professor of Public Management, Professor of Public Management, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven University)

    This is the thoroughly revised fourth edition of the widely-used and established standard text on public management reform. The new edition retains the historical perspective back to 1980, but now…

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    Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    Christopher Pollitt (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven University),Geert Bouckaert (Professor of Public Management, Professor of Public Management, KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven University)

    This is the thoroughly revised fourth edition of the widely-used and established standard text on public management reform. The new edition retains the historical perspective back to 1980, but now…

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    Performance or Compliance?: Performance Audit and Public Management in Five Countries

    Christopher Pollitt,etc.,Xavier Girre,Jeremy Lonsdale (Audit manager at the National Audit Office, London),Robert Mul

    In this volume, an international team of researchers analyze the growth of performance audit in France, Finland, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. It is argued that audit offices face…

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