How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand These countries are exemplars ожабч of the New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of public service management Calling for public managementto become a vibrant field of public policy, this valuable book consolidates recent work on the New Public Management and provides a basis for improving research and policy debate on managing public bureaucracies A copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation.  VictoriISBN 0520224434.