Public Management ReviewOctober 30, 2003 8 out of 10 found this review helpful
It is obvious that any academic book appearing as a fourth edition must be meeting the desires and aspirations of its market. The first edition of Norman Flynn’s Public Sector Management was published in 1990 and that this fourth edition is published twelve years later is evidence of real success. It is easy to see how Flynn has met what his audience wants. Public Sector Management is described in the introduction as ‘a book about management in the public sector in the United Kingdom’. This is its brief, its ambit and its ambition. There are lots of facts and figures about the public sector in that country. The book aims to help ‘anyone in the public sector to understand and cope with the recent changes, and places them in the context of the development of the welfare state’. This it does and this it does well.
Owen Hughes Australia and New Zealand School of Government Public Management Review
