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Book SynopsisA truly international examination of public sector leadership, this book explores the ways leaders of developed nations are addressing current challenges. The overriding question explored by the authors is how public leadership across the globe addresses new challenges (such as security, financial, demographic), new expectations of leaders, and what public sector leadership means in the new era. The book allows the reader to view a large number of situations across the globe to better understand the relation between context and leadership. It integrates the two fields of leadership and public administration, providing a wide-ranging and complementary empirical context to the topic.
Transcending state-centered perspectives, the authors include new developments in governance and public-private sector collaboration while retaining a focus on the public values involved. The chapters address public sector leadership issues in a wide array of nations, integrating international perspectives with a globally diverse authorship. Several chapters address issues of collaboration across sectors, changing roles in the New Public Management paradigm, and corresponding new visions of leadership. Several of the chapters are explicitly comparative, including a study of mental health leadership training topics in eight nations, central banking in Europe, and efficiency studies in Britain, Denmark, and Norway. The chapters can be used as thought-provoking case studies as part of a supplemental text, and are accompanied by substantial bibliographies.
Scholars, students, and practitioners in leadership, public policy and administration, and organization studies will find this volume a useful reference.
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Robert B. Denhardt 1. Introduction Jeffrey A. Raffel, Peter Leisink and Anthony E. Middlebrooks PART I: NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE 2. Government Reform and Public Service Values in Democratic Societies Frances Stokes Berry 3. Explaining Radical Policy Change Against All Odds: The Role of Leadership, Institutions, Program Design and Policy Windows Harald Sætren 4. Leading Central Banking in Europe Martin Marcussen 5. Dutch Civil Service Leadership: Torn Between Managerial and Policy-Oriented Leadership Roles Trui Steen and Frits M. Van der Meer PART II: FRONTIERS OF POLITICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE RELATIONS 6. Are Elected Executives Needed to Achieve Accountability to Citizens? Performance Issues and Form of Government in Large US Cities James H. Svara 7. Political and Administrative Leadership in a Reinvented European Commission Anchrit C. Wille 8. Russian Bureaucracy as an Alternative Model of Leadership Marc Holzer and Iryna Illiash PART III: LEADERSHIP PROCESSES IN INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS 9. A New Look at Leadership in Collaborative Networks: Process Catalysts Myrna P. Mandell and Robyn Keast 10. Executive Involvement and Formal Authority in Government Information-Sharing Networks: The West Nile Virus Outbreak J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Theresa A. Pardo and G. Brian Burke 11. Business Improvement Districts and the Design of Third-Party Governance: Framing Business Leadership in Urban Subdistrict Regeneration Jonathan B. Justice and Chris K. Skelcher 12. Leadership in the Unglued Organization Patricia Wallace Ingraham PART IV: ETHICS, VALUES AND DIVERSITY 13. Beyond Cognition: Affective Leadership and Emotional Labor Meredith A .Newman, Mary E. Guy and Sharon H. Mastracci 14. Leadership Diversity in an Ageing Workforce Kathleen Vanmullem and Annie Hondeghem 15. Ethical Leadership in Public-Private Partnerships: Learning from an Australian ‘Great Controversy’? Judy Johnston and Siegfried Gudergan 16. Leadership, Administrative Evil and the Ethics of Incompetence: The Failed Response to Hurricane Katrina Guy B. Adams and Danny L. Balfour PART V: LEADERSHIP TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT 17. Is Public Sector Leadership Distinct? A Comparative Analysis of Core Competencies in the Senior Executive Service Tim A. Mau 18. Examination of Mental Health Leadership Competencies Across IIMHL Countries Richard H. Beinecke and Justin Spencer 19. Evaluation of Leadership Development and Training in the British Senior Civil Service: The Search for the Holy Grail? Sylvia Horton 10. Conclusion Jeffrey A. Raffel, Peter Leisink and Anthony E. Middlebrooks Index
