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Public Management in the Postmodern Era

Challenges and Prospects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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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 original case that postmodern perspectives are of immediate relevance to issues of practice as well as to enduring problems of theory.The ambitious remit of the book will be of direct value to practitioners, scholars, academic researchers and students in politics, public policy and public management. With an international scope, the book will appeal to a worldwide audience.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-08-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in Public Policy series
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781847209788

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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.’