Academic Director and Professor Carsten Greve publishes new book on Public Management

“Reform analysis – how the public sector fundamentally has changed during the 00’s” is the title of Professor and Academic Director Carsten Greve’s new book on public management which has just been published in Danish.

The public sector has been reformed significant during the last decade with amongst others a police reform, a court of law reform as well as a reform of structure and a reform of quality. The book looks into a total of 11 reforms in the public sector and includes an in-depth case analysis of the quality reform. Today’s public sector is formed in a generally different way compared to the public sector ten years ago. This book seeks to shed light on how these new reforms is analyzed.

A primarily message of the book is, that reforms has grown to play a central role in the way public governance is carried out. A reform process is not a technical, administrative practice but a political process that concerns politicians, public managers, non-governmental organizations and citizens.  Furthermore the book classifies the different reforms in categories as for instance “campaign reforms”.

Not only does the book describe and analyze reforms, in the last chapter Greve discusses how reformers can improve new reforms in the future.

Carsten Greve is PhD and Professor in Public Governance at the Department of Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School. Since 2009 he has been director of study at the Master of Public Governance program – the flexible master in public governance which every year educates public managers in the state, regions and municipalities. Carsten Greve is furthermore one of the two Academic Directors at the CBS Public-Private Platform.

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