Public governance paradigms
Subtitle: competing and co-existing
By: Jacob Torfing (Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark, and Professor, Nord University, Norway), Lotte Bøgh Andersen (Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University), Carsten Greve (Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg), Kurt Klaudi Klausen (Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Contributors: Andersen, Lotte Bøgh, author; Greve, Carsten, author; Klausen, Kurt Klaudi, author; Edward Elgar Publishing
Series: Policy, administrative and institutional change series
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781788971225
Subjects: Public administration; Paradigms (Social sciences)
Description: "This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting and overlapping governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. Exploring the models that shape and reshape the daily operation of public organizations, it explains the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to the growing preference for alternatives, such as Digital Era Governance, Public Value Management and New Public Governance, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms. Advancing the 'public governance diamond' as a critical tool for comparing the core features of governance paradigms, this insightful book discusses the underlying behavioural assumptions of these models and the challenges faced by leaders when managing in a public sector. Informed by both key theory and empirical analysis, this book will be crucial reading for students and researchers seeking an authoritative voice on competing and co-existing modes of governance. Public leaders and managers, as well as public employees, will also benefit from its insights into the varying and multifaceted dynamics of public governance"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Bureaucracy; title: 3. Professional rule; title: 4. New Public Management; title: 5. Neo-Weberian State; title: 6. Digital Era Governance; title: 7. Public Value Management; title: 8. New Public Governance; title: 9. Comparing governance paradigms; title: 10. Managing a public sector with competing and co-existing governance paradigms; title: Index.