Public Management in the Postmodern Era

Edited by John Fenwick, Professor Emeritus, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK and Janice McMillan, Lectures in Public Management and HRD, Edinburgh Napier University Business School, UK

• Contents:PrefacePART I: CONCEPTUALISING AND THEORISING1. Public Management in the Postmodern Era: An IntroductionJohn Fenwick and Janice McMillan2. Modernism Redux: Po-Mo Problems and Hi-Mo Public Policy Wayne Parsons 3. Democracy Without a Centre: Towards a Politics of DifferencePaul H.A. Frissen4. Understanding Policy Transfer in the Competition StateMark EvansPART II: APPLICATIONS AND ACTORS5. Professions and ProfessionalismAndrew Massey 6. Working Life in the Public OrganisationDavid Farnham7. Still the Century of Bureaucracy? The Roles of Public ServantsB. Guy Peters PART III: RESOLUTION AND SENSE-MAKING 8. Everyday Makers and Expert Citizens: Active Participants in the Search for a New GovernanceHenrik P. Bang 9. Public Policy and Management in Postmodern TimesJohn Fenwick and Janice McMillan Index

‘A highly challenging set of essays on sense-making in a public sector world that previously contained a dearth of relevant theory. Moving beyond the orthodoxies of policy and management, this work advances the critical position that post modernism must be relevant to practice by building from the narratives of empowered practitioners faced with finding solutions that go beyond traditional boundaries.’