Building the New Managerialist State: Consultants and the Politics of Public Sector Reform in Comparative Perspective

This book seeks to explain why the changes produced by the new managerialism have been more radical in some countries than in others. Saint-Martin shows that the reception given by states to managerialist ideas depends on the openness of policy-making institutions to outside expert knowledge and on the organization, development, and social recognition of management consultancy.

Denis Saint-Martin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal. Previous positions include Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa (1998-9), and Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1996-8).