Oxford Handbook of Public Management

Name: Oxford Handbook of Public Management
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ISBN: 9780199259779

ISBN-10: 0199259771

ISBN-13: 9780199259779

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Christopher Pollitt, Laurence E. Lynn

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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, whichrequire 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…

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/29/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 804
Size: 6.97" wide x 10.00" long x 1.81" tall
Weight: 3.344
Language: English

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. is Chair and professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, and co-author of Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research.



Introductory Remarks




Basic Frameworks



Public Management: The Word, The Movement, The Science




Public Management: A Concise History of the Field




Bureaucracy in the 21st Century




Public and Private Management Compared




Public Management, Democracy, and Politics




Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives



Law and Public Administration




Public Management as Ethics




Public Accountability




Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations




Postmodern Public Administration




Networks and Interorganizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management




Whatever Happened to Public Administration? Governance, Governance Everywhere?




Helen Margetts: Virtual Organizations



The Audit Explosion




Exploring Current Public Policy and Management Themes



Public-Private Partnerships and Hybridity




Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management




E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management




Professionals in Public Services Organizations: Implications for Public Sector 'Reforming'




Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations




Organizational Cultures in the Public Services




Performance




Functional Areas



Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management




Public Service Quality




Budget amd Accounting Reforms




NGOs and Contracting




Evaluation and Public Management




National and International Comparisons



International Public Management




Management Consultancy




Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management



Afterword