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Public Management: Old and New

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ISBN-10: 0415287308

ISBN-13: 9780415287302

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jr. Lynn, Laurence E. Lynn

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Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting book is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management.Taking a boldly integrative approach, Lynn Laurence combines topics of best practice, performance, accountability and rule of law to offer a much-needed umbrella view of the topic. Well-written and illustrated with case study examples, this is one of the most exciting books on public management available…    
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Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Preface
Milestones in the history of public management
Public management comes of age
Introduction
Administration, management, and governance
The idea of administration: inordinate magnitude and difficulty
The idea of management: finding the light
A distinction without a difference
A distinction with a difference?
Public management or public management?
Plan and method of the book
Notes
History and contemporary public management
Introduction
Pathways of change
Public management: a three-dimensional view
Structure and process
Craft
Institutionalized values
Public management in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the
United States: overviews
France
Germany
United Kingdom
United States of America
Notes
Old public management: Continental traditions
Introduction
Pre-Westphalian public administration
Absolutism and the modern state
Sovereignty and administration
Administrative science
State, bureaucracy, and Rechtsstaat
The imperial bureaucracy
Rechtsstaat
Survival, reconstruction, and the welfare state
The interregnum
Reconstruction and social welfare
Continental legacies
Notes
Old public management: British traditions
Introduction
An unwritten constitution
Creating administrative capacity
Intellectual preparations
A modern civil service-and bureaucracy
The rule of (common) law
War and welfare
Strengthening governance
Science and ethics
British legacies
Notes
Old public management: American traditions
Introduction
Revolutionary public administration
Founding views
Pre-bureaucratic America
An American invention
European influence
A pragmatic response
Scientific management
The New Deal
From New Deal to Great Society
American legacies
Notes
New Public Management: reform, change, and adaptation
Introduction
The birth of managerialism
Reinventing American government
Something new in Europe
Great Britain
Continental Europe
Germany
France
The European Union
A disaster waiting to happen?
Managerialism in perspective
Notes
New Public Management: delegation and accountability
Introduction
Perspectives on accountability
Old Public Administration vs. New Public Management
The political economy of accountability
The new political economy
The chain of delegation
Horizontal democracy
Tensions
Notes
Of wine and bottles, old and new
Introduction
Old bottles
Old Public Administration
Path or punctuation?
A narrative of continuity
A narrative of change
New wine
Convergence or differentiation?
What is happening in theory?
Managerialism in historical perspective
Internationalizing the profession
New bottles?
Notes
References
Index