Description
Book SynopsisOther analysts build on this foundation to probe the theoretical bases of and practical solutions for public management.
Trade ReviewThis book's essays are some of the best papers presented at the second National Public Management Conference at the Robert M. LaFollette Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October 1993. The chapters in the book mark important milestones in the new discipline of public management. They not only explore how public programs can be managed to work better, but they also chart the maturation of thinking about how it ought to be done. -- Norman Gill Perspectives on Political Science
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Governance and Public Management
Chapter 1. Models of Governance for the 1990s
Part II: Disciplinary Foundations
Chapter 2. Knowledge for Practice: Of What Use Are The Disciplines?
Chapter 3. Political Science
Chapter 4. Sociology
Chapter 5. Economics
Chapter 6. Psychology
Part III: Organizational Networks in Theory and Practice
Chapter 7. Managing Across Boundaries
Chapter 8. Turf Barriers to Interagency Collaboration
Chapter 9. Designing and Implementing Volunteer Programs
Chapter 10. Leadership of a State Agency
Chapter 11. Rational Choice and the Public Management of Interorganizational Networks
Part IV: Bringing Theory and Practice Together
Chapter 12. Critical Incidents and Emergent Issues in Managing Large-Scale Change
Chapter 13. Organizational Redesign in the Public Sector
Conclusion: What is Public Management?
Notes on Contributors
Index
