Public management in an interconnected world : essays in the Minnowbrook tradition
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Public management in an interconnected world : essays in the Minnowbrook tradition
（Contributions in political science, no. 293）
Greenwood Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-198) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays seeks to improve decision making among public administrators who operate organizations in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. Contributors with different expertise examine the theories and experience of public management in an effort to find ways to deal more effectively with the complex programs, policies, and problems confronting academecians and professionals in all the social and behavioral sciences.
This entirely new analysis builds upon the thinking of two Minnowbrook conferences that have studied basic theory and decision making in public administration. An introduction looks back toward these conferences, and an epilogue looks ahead. The first part of the work finds a new multiversalist paradigm by studying the implications of interconnectedness for public managers. The second part of the book analyzes the reality and other challenges to the emergence of new public administration practice. Interconnectness, democracy, and epistemology is the subject of the third part of this study of major new directions in the field. A lengthy bibliography completes the overview that the book offers.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction by Frank Marini The Implications of Interconnectedness for Public Managers Managing Interconnectedness: The New Challenge for Public Administration by Jeff S. Luke Beyond Rationality: Decisionmaking in an Interconnected World by Mary Timney Bailey "A Wild Patience": A Feminist View of Ameliorative Public Administration by Camilla Stivers Humanizing the Workplace: Incorporating Feminine Leadership by Carol J. Edlund Reality and Other Challenges to the Emergence of New Public Administration Practice The Feminization of Public Administration: Today's Reality and Tomorrow's Promise by Mary E. Guy The Tug of History: The Operant Theory of Social Control and the American Administrative State by Richard T. Mayer Interconnectedness, Democracy, and Epistemology Knowledge Development and Use in Public Administration: Views from Postpositivism, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism by Jay D. White American Constitutionalism in the Interconnected World: Administrative Responsibilities in a Rhetorical Republic by Robert C. Zinke Epilogue by Dwight Waldo Bibliography Index
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