Public Management in the Postmodern Era : Challenges and Prospects
John. Fenwick
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cheltenham : : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (240 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART 1 Conceptualising and theorising; 1. Public management in the postmodern era: an introduction; 2. Modernism redux: po-mo problems and hi-mo public policy; 3. Democracy without a centre: towards a politics of difference; 4. Understanding policy transfer in the competition state; PART 2 Applications and actors; 5. Professions and professionalism; 6. Working life in the public organisation; 7. Still the century of bureaucracy? The roles of public servants; PART 3 Resolution and sense-making. - 8. Everyday makers and expert citizens: active participants in the search for a new governance9. Public policy and management in postmodern times; Index. - Challenging the traditional orthodoxies of public management, this timely and comprehensive book adopts a lively and critical approach to key questions of public policy and management. With state-of-the-art contributions from leading international scholars, Public Management in the Postmodern Era explores a public sector that has moved irreversibly beyond the familiar territory of New Public Management and the exhausted tenets of modernization. Within a global environment where the old explanations and solutions have failed, the book advances a postmodern analysis. It argues strongly its origi
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| ISBN | 9781847209788
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