Strategies for governing : reinventing public administration for a dangerous century
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Strategies for governing : reinventing public administration for a dangerous century
Cornell University Press, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Time for a New Approach
1. Summary of Propositions
2. Acknowledging the State
3. States and Societies
4. Leaders and Their Goals
5. Strategies for Governing
6. Factors and Forces
7. Laws, Organizations, Programs, and Practices
8. Aspects of Institutional Stewardship
9. Challenges in Strategy-Making
10. The Struggle for Mastery
11. Danger, Strategic Fragility, and Realism
12. Time and Progress
13. Unexceptionalism
14. Efficiency or Extravagance
15. Tight or Loose Control
16. Separation or Connection
17. Present or Future
18. Commitment or Equivocation
19. Planning or Improvisation
20. Research
21. Teaching
22. Practice
Conclusion: Grand Challenges
A Glossary of States
Further Reading
Notes
Index
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