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Global Public Management offers a collection of cases illustrating managerial problemsand policy situations that managers could face anywhere in the world. These cases arethen analyzed by universal scholars and practitioners of public management. The casecomments focus on identifying the problem in the case and offering suggestions on howto handle the conflict. Taken together, the case and the three different assessments of thecase offer a marvelous way for students of administration to gain vicarious experience inmanaging in a global environment. The cases describe situations that managers mightface, and the comments offered by the experts clearly demonstrate that managerialproblems are in the eye of the beholder and that there are the alternative strategies tosolve the problem.Key Features:• The cases are short, between 3 and 10 pages in length, and they address issuesthat a typical public manager faces on the job.• This book presents both the problematic situation and a host of proposed solutions.• The suggested interpretations of the cases come from public administrationacademics and practitioners who have worked or are working in Africa, Asia,Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East.Keywords: case study, global public managementThe Global Public Management Revolution: A Report on the Transformation ofGovernance. Kettl, Donald F. Washington DC: Brooking Institute Press. 2000.http://www.brook.edu/press/books/management_reform.htmThis book offers a close analysis of the political, social, economic, and institutionalforces that have prompted governments world-wide to aggressively pursue such similarstrategies at the same time. The report examines the basic models of reform—especiallyin the United States and New Zealand—along with the standard strategies and tacticsbehind them. These tools shape important problems of governance and raise profoundimplications for it in the twenty-first century.Keywords: governance, public management, textbookHow Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform. Riccucci,Norma M. Georgetown University Press. 2005.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1589010418/bookpriceline-20/ref/002-6383301-6605631How Management Matters examines not only how but where public management mattersin government organizations. Looking at the 1996 welfare reform law (the PersonalResponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, or PRWORA), Riccucci388