V predlagaemoy vnimaniyu chitateley knige rassmatrivaetsya evolyutsiya teoreticheskikh podkhodov v sfere gosudarstvennogo upravleniya i praktika realizatsii administrativnykh reform v zarubezhnykh stranakh i Rossii s pozitsii novoy institutsional'noy ekonomicheskoy teorii. V chastnosti, raskryvaetsya teoreticheskiy fundament Novogo gosudarstvennogo menedzhmenta kak dvizheniya po reformirovaniyu byurokraticheskoy veberianskoy sistemy gosudarstvennogo upravleniya. Osoboe vnimanie udelyaetsya traektoriyam zarubezhnykh reform i probleme otsenki ikh rezul'tatov. Rassmatrivayutsya etapy rossiyskoy administrativnoy reformy i demonstriruyutsya institutsional'nye problemy pri ee osushchestvlenii.