The Spirit of Reform: Managing the New Zealand State Sector in a Time of Change

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The Spirit of Reform: Managing the New Zealand State Sector in a Time of Change

A report prepared for the State Services Commission and The Treasury in 1996. Author: Professor Allen Schick, Professor of Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Crown copyright 1996.

Last updated 18/9/2002Plain text URL: http://www.ssc.govt.nz/spirit-of-reform

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CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I. Introduction

II. Transforming the Public Sector: Putting Ideas into Practice

III. Structure of the State Sector

IV. Organisational Capacity

V. Strategic Capacity

VI. Managing Public Money

VII. Accounting For Results

VIII. The Spirit of Reform

Appendices I - IV