Resources: Cross-cutting Governance Issues

Modernising Government: The Way Forward This book takes stock of the past two decades of public sector modernisation in OECD countries. These years have witnessed an influx of new ideas and initiatives but how have these new ideas worked in practice? This report assesses failures and successes and identifies the challenges ahead.

It examines certain selected key public management policy levers of reform such as:

• Making government more responsive, transparent and accessible,
• Instilling a performance approache in the public sector,
• Changing accountability and control systems,
• Facilitating reallocation and restructuring,
• Organising and motivating public servants, and
• Integrating a market approach.

This report includes comparable data and tables comparing systems across countries. It aims to help policy makers equip themselves for the future.

OECD Policy Briefs

• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation - The Way Forward (November 2005) (English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Paying for Performance: Policies for Government Employees (May 2005) (English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation: Modernising Accountability and Control (April 2005) (English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation: Open Government (February 2005) (English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation: Governing for Performance (October 2004)(English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation: Changing Organisational Structures (September 2004) (English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation: Modernising Public Employment (July 2004)(English, Français)
• OECD Policy Brief: Public Sector Modernisation (October 2003) (English, Français)