Assessment of public management reform and strategy / Kuno Schedler, Lawrence R. Jones, Riccardo Mussari -- Part 1: Accountability, decentralization, and delegation strategies. -- Rethinking accountability in education: how should who hold whom accountable for what? / Robert D. Behn -- Development of contracting in infrastructure investment in the U.K.: the private finance initiative in the National Health Service / Jane Broadbent, Jas Gill, Richard Laughlin -- Stakeholder theory, partnerships and alliances in the health care sector of the U.K. and Scotland / Alexander Murdock -- Strategies for health care reform implementation in southern Italy / Marco Menneguzo, Valentina Mele, Angelo Tenese -- Part 2: Information technology and management control strategies -- Managing the e-government organization / Kuno Schedler, Bernhard Schmidt -- Reform of public management through ICT: interface, accountability and transparency / Hiroko Kudo --