Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory, and Application - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817309713 ISBN 13: 9780817309718

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 1999

Synopsis

A foundational examination of how research, theory, and innovation shape effective public management and democratic governance.

The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors ask in this volume, is good politics necessarily good government?

Given the growing desire to reinvent government, there are hard questions to be asked: Is the private sector market model suitable and effective when applied to reforming public and governmental organizations? What are the major political forces affecting reform efforts in public management? How is public management reform accomplished in a constitutional democratic government? How do the values of responsiveness, professionalism, and managerial excellence shape current public management reforms? In this volume, editors H. George Frederickson and Jocelyn M. Johnston bring together scholars with a shared interest in empirical research to confront head-on the toughest questions public managers face in their efforts to meet the demands of reform and innovation.

Throughout the book, the authors consider the bureaucratic resistance that results when downsizing and reinvention are undertaken simultaneously, the dilemma public managers face when elected executives set a reform agenda that runs counter to the law, and the mistaken belief that improved management can remedy flawed policy.

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About the Author

H. George Frederickson is Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.

Jocelyn M. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.
 

Edition details

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817309713
• ISBN 13: 9780817309718
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Frederickson H. George, Johnston Jocelyn