Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
About the Book Series
The study and practice of public management has undergone profound changes across the world. Over the last quarter century, we have seen
- the increasing criticism of public administration as the over-arching framework for the provision of public services
- the rise (and critical appraisal) of the ‘New Public Management’ as an emergent paradigm for the provision of public services
- the transformation of the ‘public sector’ into the cross-sectoral provision of public services
- the growth of the governance of inter-organizational relationships as an essential element in the provision of public services
In reality these trends have not so much replaced each other as elided or co-existed together – the public policy process has not gone away as a legitimate topic of study, intra-organizational management continues to be essential to the efficient provision of public services, whist the governance of inter-organizational and inter-sectoral relationships is now essential to the effective provision of these services.
This series is dedicated to presenting and critiquing this important body of theory and empirical study. It will publish books that both explore and evaluate the emergent and developing nature of public administration, management and governance (in theory and practice) and examine the relationship with and contribution to the over-arching disciplines of management and organizational sociology. Books in the series will be of interest to academics and researchers in this field, students undertaking advanced studies, and reflective policy makers and practitioners.
Crossing Boundaries in Public Policy and Management: Tackling the Critical Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Luke Craven, Helen Dickinson, Gemma Carey
December 18, 2020
This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational. In doing so, it tackles the question of boundary-spanning from four different angles, providing an in-depth investigation ...
Making Governments Accountable: The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
1st Edition
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By Zahirul Hoque
December 18, 2020
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing ...
Social Procurement and New Public Governance
1st Edition
By Josephine Barraket, Robyn Keast, Craig Furneaux
December 18, 2020
In recent years, the search for innovative, locally relevant and engaging public service has become the new philosophers’ stone. Social procurement represents one approach to maximising public spending and social value through the purchase of goods and services. It has gained increasing attention ...
The Professions, State and the Market: Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
1st Edition
By Mike Saks
December 18, 2020
This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social ...
Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Irvine Lapsley, Hans Knutsson
December 10, 2019
As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something different – a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘Scandinavian’ way of modernizing ...
Public Policy, Governance and Polarization: Making Governance Work
1st Edition
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By David K. Jesuit, Russell Alan Williams
December 10, 2019
Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. ...
Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design
1st Edition
By Jennifer Madden
December 05, 2019
Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems. Collaborations can attract resources, increase efficiency, and facilitate visions of mutual benefit that can ignite common desires of ...
Ethics Management in the Public Service: A Sensory-based Strategy
1st Edition
By Liza Ireni-Saban, Galit Berdugo
June 07, 2019
Ethics Management in the Public Service offers a new perspective for ethics management in the Public Administration. The traditional approaches, relying on codified rules, regulations, and guidelines, have not yielded the results expected of them and have not managed to serve as an effective tool ...
Business and Government Relations in Africa
1st Edition
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By Robert A. Dibie
June 06, 2019
This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new level. In the twenty-first century, the interests and operations of government and business inevitably intersect all over the African continent. No ...
Governing through Regulation: Public Policy, Regulation and the Law
1st Edition
By Eric Windholz
June 06, 2019
Over the past forty years, numerous theoretical advances have been made. From Ayres’ and Braithwaite’s ground breaking work on ‘responsive regulation’, we have seen models of ‘smart regulation’, ‘regulatory governance’ and ‘regulatory capitalism’ emerge to capture the growing prevalence and ...
Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy: Institutional Dilemmas in European Cities
1st Edition
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By Nils Hertting, Clarissa Kugelberg
June 06, 2019
Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal ...
Public Management in Times of Austerity
1st Edition
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By Eva Moll Sørensen, Hanne Foss Hansen, Mads Bøge Kristiansen
June 06, 2019
Since 2008, the world has experienced an enormous decrease of wealth. By many measures the impact of the crisis was severe. The fall in GDP, the collapse of world trade, the rise in unemployment, and the credit slump reached bigger proportions than in any other crisis since World War II. Although ...