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| Description | | - An authoritative assessment on the major trends in Public Management following the major developments of the last thirty years
- Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines comment on key issues
- Combines scholarly rigour, engaging writing from senior authors and high policy relevance
| The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many different countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public adminstration/management: some advocate the use of more managerialist approaches; while others critique them. New functions
have also arisen in the public sector, such as evaluation or management consulting, which require analysis. There is a renewed need for an analysis of contemporary public sector organisations, which are changing rapidly before our eyes.
Thus it is time for an authoritative assessment of the major trends in public management, embracing both their intended and unintended effects. This Handbook
brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues. The individual chapters include a mix of broad overviews, in depth exploration of particular thematic areas and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology and economics. The authors have been given sufficient space to develop their distinctive arguments. The
editors provide an overall concluding chapter. The Handbook combines scholarly rigour, engaging writing from senior authors and high policy relevance. It will be relevant to advanced students, researchers and reflective public sector practitioners. |
Readership: Academics, Researchers and Students of Public Administration and Public Management, Organization Studies, and Political Science; Practitioners and consultants in public sector organizations.
| Contents |
Introductory Remarks
,
Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Christopher Pollitt
Section I: Basic Frameworks
1.
Public Management: The Word, The Movement, The Science
,
Christopher Hood
2.
Public Management: A Concise History of the Field
,
Laurence E. Lynn Jr.
3.
Bureaucracy in the 21st Century
,
Kenneth J. Meier
4.
Public and Private Management Compared
,
Hal G. Rainey and Young Han Chun
5.
Public Management, Democracy, and Politics
,
Linda deLeon
Section II: Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives
6.
Law and Public Administration
,
Anthony Bertelli
7.
Public Management as Ethics
,
J. Patrick Dobel
8.
Public Accountability
,
Mark Bovens
9.
Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations
,
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer
10.
Postmodern Public Administration
,
Peter Bogason
11.
Networks and Interorganizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management
,
Erik-Hans Klijn
12.
Whatever Happened to Public Administration? Governance, Governance Everywhere?
,
H. George Frederickson
13.
Virtual Organizations
,
Helen Margetts
14.
The Audit Explosion
,
Michael Power
Section III: Exploring Current Public Policy and Management Themes
15.
Public-Private Partnerships and Hybridity
,
Chris Skelcher
16.
Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management
,
Christopher Pollitt
17.
E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management
,
Ignace Snellen
18.
Professionals in Public Services Organizations: Implications for Public Sector 'Reforming'
,
Ewan Ferlie and Keith J. Geraghty
19.
Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations
,
Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley, and Linda Rouleau
20.
Organizational Cultures in the Public Services
,
Robert Dingwall and Tim Strangleman
21.
Performance
,
Colin Talbot
Section IV: Functional Areas
22.
Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management
,
Patricia W. Ingraham
23.
Public Service Quality
,
John Øvretveit
24.
Budget amd Accounting Reforms
,
Irene Rubin and Joanne Kelly
25.
NGOs and Contracting
,
Steven Rathgeb Smith
26.
Evaluation and Public Management
,
Peter Dahler-Larsen
Section V: National and International Comparisons
27.
International Public Management
,
David Mathiasen
28.
Management Consultancy
,
Denis Saint Martin
29.
Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management
,
Isabella Proeller and Kuno Schedler
Afterword
,
Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Christopher Pollitt
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Professor and Head of Department, the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London,
Laurence E. Lynn Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, and
Christopher Pollitt, Professor of Public Management, Centre for Public Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and Scientific Director, Netherlands Institute of Government
| Contributors:Anthony Bertelli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia.
Peter Bogason, Professor of Public Administration, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Mark Bovens, Professor of Public Administration and Research Director, the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University.
Young Han Chun, Assistant
Professor of Public Ddministration, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Peter Dahler-Larson, Professor of Evaluation, Dept of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern
Linda deLeon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver.
Robert Dingwall, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of
Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham.
Professor J. Patrick Dobel, Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Washington.
Ewan Ferlie, Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H. George Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration at the University of Kansas.
Keith Geraghty, previously a Research Assistant in the CPSO and is now a medical student.
Gregory C. Hill , Ph.D student in Political Science at Texas A&M University a
Christopher Hood, All Souls College, University of Oxford,
Joanne Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Erik-Hans Klijn,
Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ann Langley, Professor of Strategic Management and Research Methods and Director of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs, HEC Montréal.
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, the Bush School for Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University and the Sydney Stein Jr.
Professor of Public Management Emeritus, University of Chicago.
Helen Margetts, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford,
David Mathiasen, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Kenneth J. Meier, Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University
Dr John Øvretveit, Director of Research at the Medical
Management Centre, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Bergen University Medical School, Norway and at the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Christopher Pollitt, Professor of Public Management at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute of Government.
Michael Power, Professor of
Accounting and a Director of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics
Isabella Proeller, Vice-Director and Senior Research Associate, the Institute of Public Services and Tourism at the University of St. Gallen.
Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy of the School of Public
and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
Linda Rouleau, Associate Professor, Management Department at HEC Montreal.
Irene Rubin, Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois
Denis Saint-Martin, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Administration, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
Kuno Schedler, Professor for Public Management,
University of St. Gallen Switzerland
Chris Skelcher, Professor of Local Government Studies and Director of Research at INLOGOV (the Institute of Local Government Studies) in the University of Birmingham's School of Public Policy.
Steven Rathgeb Smith, Professor of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Ignace Snellen, Emeritus Professor of Public
Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and at Leyden University.
Tim Strangleman, Senior Research Fellow, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Colin Talbot, Professor of Public Policy, University of Nottingham, and Director of the Nottingham Policy Centre.
David L. Weimer, Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Patricia Wallace Ingraham, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University's Maxwell School |
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