PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA.

Although recent public management reforms In Canada, Mexico and the USA are characterized by similar themes and vocabularies - privatization, customer service, devolution - the nature and extent of actual change reflects the national politics and administrative histories of the three countries, in brief, Canadian public management has been heavily influenced by the need for fiscal retrenchment at both national and provincial levels, Mexican public management has been influenced by the transition from oligarchic to democratic governance at federal, state and local levels, and USA public management has been preocuppied at the federal level with implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act and with the miscellaneous initiatives organized under the 'Reinventing Government' theme as it has been popularized Clinton administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]