Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy



Public Money & Management

Volume 26, Number 5

November 2006

Contents

DEBATES

Looking Beyond the Railway Soap Opera
Adrian Lyons

Railways-A Successful Public Service Reform
George Muir

THEME: TERRORISM AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Editorial
Denis Smith

International Terrorism and the Costs of Over-Reaction
Dipak K. Gupta

Perspectives Around Emergent Connectivity, Sense-Making and Asymmetric Threat Management
Dave Snowden

Perspectives around Policing
Bernard Hogan-Howe

Coping with Suicide Attacks: Lessons from Israel
Arie Perliger and Ami Pedahzur

Suicidal Terrorism and Public Health
Niyi Awofeso

Terrorism and Critical Infrastructures: Implications for Public-Private Crisis Management
Arjen Boin and Denis Smith

The Contagion of International Terrorism and its Effects on the Firm in an Interconnected World
John Steen, Peter W. Liesch, Gary A. Knight and Michael R. Czinkota

NON-THEME ARTICLE

Some Puzzles and Paradoxes of the Efficiency Agenda-and a Way Forward
David Griffiths