Public Management Reform and Innovation
Language: English
Published by The University of Alabama Press, 1999
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This text confronts questions public managers face in their efforts to meet demands of reform and innovation. It considers bureaucratic resistance, the dilemma faced when a reform agenda runs counter to the law, and the belief that improved management can remedy flawed policy. Editor(s): Frederickson, H. George; Johnston, Jocelyn M. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: JPQ; KJM; KNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 603. . 1999. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Public Management Reform and Innovation
- Author
- . Ed(s): Frederickson, H. George; Johnston, Jocelyn M.
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0817309713
- ISBN 13
- 9780817309718
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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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.
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