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Thirteen of the best papers from a national conference in October 1993 explore the role of public management in shaping the performance of public programs. Topics include: models of governance for the 1990s; contributions that scholars from other disciplines political science, sociology, economics, and psychology have made to public management; organizational networks in both theory and practice; and uniting theory and practice an exploration of how government managers have been struggling to reinvent, reengineer, redesign and otherwise reform their agencies and programs. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Public management stands at the unique intersection of theory and practice. It seeks to help scholars frame questions that will improve their understanding of how policy ideas become transformed into practice and to help government managers see past the narrow issues on their desks to the broader implications of their work. In The State of Public Management, Donald F. Kettl and H. Brinton Milward bring together contributors who focus on the interdisciplinary nature of public management. Scholars from the social sciences—economics, political science, sociology, and psychology—examine what traditional disciplines bring to the debate. Other analysts build on this foundation to probe the theoretical bases of and practical solutions for public management.
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