Pursuing Horizontal Management
Subtitle: The Politics of Public Sector Coordination
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Mar 13, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780700620937
Description: "Peters provides the most comprehensive discussion available of the problem of policy coordination in the public sector. He begins by observing that governments typically react to policy problems by embracing specialization, which tends to undermine efforts to deliver better coordinated policies. Drawing upon a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and multinational, he tackles this conundrum by focusing on the concept of horizontal management. His conceptual analysis is supplemented by four case studies of public sector coordination (Homeland Security in the U.S., child protection in the U.K., policymaking in Finland, and the European Union). Finding the appropriate balance between specialization and coordination, Peters concludes, is a knotty problem yet essential to the delivery of the most effective policies"--
Notes: Source title: Pursuing Horizontal Management: The Politics of Public Sector Coordination (Studies in Government and Public Policy)