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A

Affordable Care Act (ACA) (Obamacare)  6, 7
Australia  4
New Public Management (NPM)  63, 65, 71–4
urban density  14

B

Basic Law (Germany)  49
Beveridge Report  57–9
Bismarck, Otto Von  38
Blair, Tony  75, 78–9
Bonnin, Charles-Jean  37–8
Britain see United Kingdom
bureaucracy  40–2
business, running of governments as  7–10

C

C40 (Cities Climate Leadership Group)  96
Cameron, David  8
capitalism  47–8, 61
China, urban density  13
civil leadership  2
climate change  96–7
Clinton, Bill  74–7
communication between organizations  85–8
Comprehensive Spending Reviews (CSRs)  78

D

decentralization  25–6
Deming, W. Edwards  84–7
democracy  15, 17–18, 28–9, 58
‘bottom-up’  23
Democracy Index  92
Western  47–9
Denhardt, Robert B. and Janet V. Denhardt  89, 90
deregulation  75–6

E

East India Company  27
economics, global  45–7, 101–2
e-governance  98–9
electoral processes  28–9
emergency responses  11–13
employment  35, 42, 46, 60
China  13
civil service  29–30
Sweden  44
USA  55, 77
Works Progress Administration (WPA)  53
employment schemes  53, 77, 79
English Civil War (1642–9)  18
Europe
financial crisis (2015)  105
progressive reform  35–6

F

Fayol, Henri  38
Financial Management Improvement Programme (FMIP)  72–4
France  36–8

G

Germany  38–42
welfare policy  48–50
Gladstone, William  34
global financial crises
1930s  45–6
2008  101–2
globalization  10–14, 93–100
global population  104
golden age of managed capitalism  47–8
Government Business Enterprises (GBEs)  72, 73–4
Great Depression  45–6
Gulick, Luther  54–5

H

Hamilton, Alexander  22
Harvey, J. T.  8
Hawke, Robert  72
healthcare  55–6, 66, 71
Hobbes, Thomas  18
Hurricane Katrina  11–13

I

India
networks  97–8
urban density  13
industrialization  42–3
global  10–14
information and communication technologies (ICTs)  98, 99–100
interdependence between organizations  85–8
international networks  93–6

J

Jackson, Andrew  28
Jefferson, Thomas  22–4

K

Keating, Michael  63
Keating, Paul  72
Kettl, Donald  20, 63
Keynes, John Maynard  46–7

L

leadership  2, 84
learning organizations  81–4, 88
Lewis, H. S.  2
Locke, John  19–20

M

macroeconomics  46
Madison, James  20, 21–2
management  89–92
mass production  48
Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS)  68

N

Napoleonic tradition  36–7
national insurance  35, 51
nation-states  35–6, 44
neoliberalism  64, 65, 74, 76–7
networks  93–100
New Economics  84
New Federalism  65–7
New Public Administration (NPA)  62–3
New Public Management (NPM)  63–80
New Public Service (NPS)  89–92
Niskanen, William A.  66–7

O

Obama, President Barack  6–7, 9–10
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act)  6, 7
organizational systems  84–8, 94

P

Peace of Westphalia  17
Pendleton Act (1883)  30
political science  30–1
Poor Law (1834)  32, 33–4
popular sovereignty  17–19
population  13–14, 104–5
POSDCORB  54–5
poverty  54, 55, 57–8
private sector  7–8, 9, 62, 64, 66
privatization  69–70
public opinion of governments  4–5, 102–3
public sector  103–5
running like a business  7–10

R

Railtrack  9
Reagan, President Ronald  65–7
reflective practice  81–4
Reich, Robert B.  48
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. (FDR)  52–4

S

Scandinavia  42–4
Second World War  55
Simon, Herbert  56
Social Democratic governments (Sweden)  50–2
social market economy  49
social policy reform  79
social reform  29, 43–4
Social Security Act (USA)  54
Stein, Lorenz Von  39
stock market crash (USA, 1929)  52
strategic planning cycles  91
Sweden  42–4
information and communication  99
welfare policy  50–2

T

Tammany Hall  29
taxes  51, 67–8
Taylor, Frederick Winslow  31–2
terrorist attacks  4–5
Thatcher, Margaret  8, 60, 63, 67–71, 79
transnational municipal networks (TMNs)  96
Trevelyan-Northcote Report (1854)  34

U

United Kingdom (UK)  3
decentralization  25
healthcare  71
New Public Management (NPM)  63–4, 67–71, 75, 78–9
popular sovereignty  18–19
privatization  9, 69–70
welfare policy  32–5, 57–60, 79
United Nations (UN)
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)  96
environmental initiatives  97
United States of America (USA)  3, 4
Affordable Care Act (ACA)  6, 7
decentralization  25–6
government shutdown  5–7
healthcare  55–6, 66
Hurricane Katrina  11–13
independence and formation of government  19–24
networks  96–7
New Public Management (NPM)  65–7, 74–7
population  104–5
progressive reforms  28–32
public sector  103
Tea Party  9–10
urban density  14
welfare policy  52–7, 77
urban density  13–14
Urwick, Lyndall  54–5

W

Waldo, Dwight  56, 62
water facilities  97–8
Weber, Max  39–42
welfare states  32–5, 47–60, 77, 79
Westphalian Treaty  17
Wilson, President Woodrow  30–1
Works Progress Administration (WPA)  53