The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

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Oxford University Press, 2000 - Business & Economics - 261 pages
"Why does public management - the art of the state - so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation can be applied to government? Why do we find contradictory receipes for the improvement of public services? Are the forces of modernity set to produce worldwide convergence in ways of organizing government? This important new study aims to explore such questions, central to current debates over public management" -- Back cover.
 

Contents

Calamity Conspiracy and Chaos
23
Fiascos Resulting from Excessive Trust in Authority
35
Lack of Planning Initiative
43
Control and Regulation in Public Management
49
CLASSIC AND RECURRING
71
Doing Public Management the Individualist Way
98
Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way
120
Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way?
145
SCIENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
169
PublicManagement Modernization as Beneficent
206
Conclusion
219
Bibliography
242
Index
259
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Christopher Hood is at London School of Economics and Political Science.

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