Public management : old and new /
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| Author / Creator: | Lynn, Laurence E., 1937- |
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| Imprint: | New York ; London : Routledge, 2006. |
| Description: | xiv, 210 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6114378 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Milestones in the history of public management
- 1. Public management comes of age
- Introduction
- Administration, management, and governance
- The idea of administration: inordinate magnitude and difficulty
- The idea of management: finding the light
- A distinction without a difference
- A distinction with a difference?
- Public management or public management?
- Plan and method of the book
- Notes
- 2. History and contemporary public management
- Introduction
- Pathways of change
- Public management: a three-dimensional view
- Structure and process
- Craft
- Institutionalized values
- Public management in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States: overviews
- France
- Germany
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Notes
- 3. Old public management: Continental traditions
- Introduction
- Pre-Westphalian public administration
- Absolutism and the modern state
- Sovereignty and administration
- Administrative science
- State, bureaucracy, and Rechtsstaat
- The imperial bureaucracy
- Rechtsstaat
- Survival, reconstruction, and the welfare state
- The interregnum
- Reconstruction and social welfare
- Continental legacies
- Notes
- 4. Old public management: British traditions
- Introduction
- An unwritten constitution
- Creating administrative capacity
- Intellectual preparations
- A modern civil service - and bureaucracy
- The rule of (common) law
- War and welfare
- Strengthening governance
- Science and ethics
- British legacies
- Notes
- 5. Old public management: American traditions
- Introduction
- Revolutionary public administration
- Founding views
- Pre-bureaucratic America
- An American invention
- European influence
- A pragmatic response
- Scientific management
- The New Deal
- From New Deal to Great Society
- American legacies
- Notes
- 6. New Public Management: reform, change, and adaptation
- Introduction
- The birth of managerialism
- Reinventing American government
- Something new in Europe
- Great Britain
- Continental Europe
- Germany
- France
- The European Union
- A disaster waiting to happen?
- Managerialism in perspective
- Notes
- 7. New Public Management: delegation and accountability
- Introduction
- Perspectives on accountability
- Old Public Administration vs. New Public Management
- The political economy of accountability
- The new political economy
- The chain of delegation
- Horizontal democracy
- Tensions
- Notes
- 8. Of wine and bottles, old and new
- Introduction
- Old bottles
- Old Public Administration
- Path or punctuation?
- A narrative of continuity
- A narrative of change
- New wine
- Convergence or differentiation?
- What is happening in theory?
- Managerialism in historical perspective
- Internationalizing the profession
- New bottles?
- Notes
- References
- Index
