Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:
9780191521126
Content:
This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the 'modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory and likely to remain so.
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- PART I: INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Public Management: Seven Propositions -- 1. Public Management: Three Conventional Assumptions -- 2. What This Book Argues -- 3. Grid/Group Cultural Theory and Public Management -- 4. Putting Cultural Theory to Work in Analysing Public Management -- 5. Combining Cultural and Historical Perspectives -- 6. Modernity and Convergence in Cultural and Historical Perspective -- 7. The Stretchability and Centrality of the Cultural-Theory Frame -- 8. The Plan of the Book -- 2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management -- 1. Responses to Public-Management Disasters -- 2. Four Types of Failure and Collapse -- 3. Private Gain from Public Office -- 4. Fiascos Resulting from Excessive Trust in Authority and Expertise -- 5. Unresolved Conflict and Internecine Strife -- 6. Apathy and Inertia: Lack of Planning, Initiative, and Foresight -- 7. Accounting for Failure in Public Management -- 3. Control and Regulation in Public Management -- 1. 'Bossism': Oversight and Review as an Approach to Control -- 2. 'Choicism': Control by Competition -- 3. 'Groupism': Control by Mutuality -- 4. 'Chancism': Control by Contrived Randomness -- 5. Ringing the Changes: Hybrids, Variants, and Alternatives -- PART II: CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT -- 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way -- 1. What Hierarchists Believe -- 2. 'The Daddy of them All': Confucian Public Management -- 3. The European State-Builders: Cameralism and 'Policey Science' -- 4. Progressivism and Fabianism: 'Servants of the New Reorganization' -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way -- 1. What Individualists Believe About Public Management -- 2. Individualist Approaches, Old and New -- 3. Recurring Themes in Individualist Public Management.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198280408
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198280408
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3052801
