Policy Performance And Management In Governance And Intergovernmental Relations

Author : Edoardo Ongaro,Andrew Massey,Marc Holzer,Ellen Wayenberg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857933232

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Policy, Performance and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations by Edoardo Ongaro,Andrew Massey,Marc Holzer,Ellen Wayenberg Pdf

The trend towards multi-level and intergovernmental governance arrangements has created a need for a new analytic language and for new frameworks of analysis. It has changed the nature of decision-making. This timely book combines perspective from public policy, public management and public finance and provides new insights into who governs the multi-level and intergovernmental polity and how it is governed, making it an essential addition to the literature. Steven Van de Walle, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands This innovative book presents a transatlantic comparison of governance and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) policy, performance and management. By examining both analytical and empirical differences and similarities between the European Union and the United States, this comprehensive book provides a better understanding of (inter) governmental systems, settings and actors operating in the post New Public Management Era. The expert contributors consider processes of policy formulation and implementation from an intergovernmental point of view, examine issues of performance and accountability that rise in IGR settings and zoom in on the importance and implications of IGR for welfare. Taken together, these insights provide an important next step into the world of transatlantic research and comparison. This timely book will appeal to academics and researchers involved in IGR and Multi-Level Governance from the US and Europe as well as post-graduate students in public administration and public policy.

Author : Edoardo Ongaro
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 184844320X

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Policy, Performance and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations by Edoardo Ongaro Pdf

A transatlantic comparison of governance and IGR policy, performance and management. By examining both analytical and empirical differences and similarities between the EU and the US, the book thus provides a better understanding of (inter- ) governmental systems, settings and actors operating in the post New Public Management Era.

Author : Timothy J. Conlan,Paul L. Posner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815703631

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Intergovernmental Management for the 21st Century by Timothy J. Conlan,Paul L. Posner Pdf

A Brookings Institution Press and the National Academy of Public Administration publication America's complex system of multi-layered government faces new challenges as a result of rapidly changing economic, technological, and demographic trends. An aging population, economic globalization, and homeland security concerns are among the powerful factors testing the system's capacity and flexibility. Major policy challenges and responses are now overwhelmingly intergovernmental in nature, and as a result, the fortunes of all levels of government are more intertwined and interdependent than ever before. This volume, cosponsored by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA), defines an agenda for improving the performance of America's intergovernmental system. The early chapters present the current state of practice in intergovernmental relations, including discussion of trends toward centralization, devolution, and other power-sharing arrangements. The fiscal underpinnings of the system are analyzed, along with the long-term implications of current trends in financing at all levels. The authors identify the principal tools used to define intergovernmental management–grants, mandates, preemptions—in discussing emerging models and best practices in the design and management of those tools. In tergovernmental Management for the 21st Century applies these crosscutting themes to critical policy areas where intergovernmental management and cooperation are essential, such as homeland security, education, welfare, health care, and the environment. It concludes with an authoritative assessment of the system's capacity to govern, oversee, and improve. Contributors include Jocelyn Johnston (American University), Shelley Metzenbaum (University of Maryland), Richard Nathan (SUNY at Albany), Barry Rabe (University of Michigan), Beryl Radin (American University), Alice Rivlin (Brookings Institution), Ray Sheppach (National Governors Association), Frank Shafroth (George Mason University), Troy Smith (BYU–Hawaii), Carl Stenberg (University of Nor

Author : Carolyn J. Heinrich,Laurence E. Lynn Jr.
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781589013339

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Governance and Performance by Carolyn J. Heinrich,Laurence E. Lynn Jr. Pdf

Drawing on recent advances in the social sciences, this volume shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs—and how better governance can lead to better performance. These original essays demonstrate how better data and improved statistical techniques have allowed researchers to construct more complex models of governance processes and thereby assess the effects of many variables on policy and program outcomes. They present useful research results that illuminate such issues as automatic grade advancement in public schools, management of federally-funded job-training programs, reducing welfare caseloads, and management of welfare-to-work programs. Illustrating a range of theoretical and methodological possibilities, this book shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.

Author : Peter Graefe,Julie Simmons,Linda A. White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442662070

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Overpromising and Underperforming? by Peter Graefe,Julie Simmons,Linda A. White Pdf

Public reporting has been used experimentally in federal-provincial relations since the mid-1990s as an accountability mechanism to promote policy effectiveness, intergovernmental cooperation, and democratic legitimacy. Our understanding of how well it is working, however, remains limited to very specific policy sectors – even though this information is essential to policy makers in Canada and beyond. Overpromising and Underperforming? offers a deeper analysis of the use of new accountability mechanisms, paying particular attention to areas in which federal spending power is used. This is the first volume to specifically analyse the accountability features of Canadian intergovernmental agreements and to do so systematically across policy sectors. Drawing on the experiences of other federal systems and multilevel governance structures, the contributors investigate how public reporting has been used in various policy fields and the impact it has had on policy-making and intergovernmental relations.

Author : Canadian Centre for Management Development
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773521305

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Governance in the Twenty-first Century by Canadian Centre for Management Development Pdf

Numerous administrative reforms during the past several decades, referred to as the "New Public Management," have altered government in a number of fundamental ways. These changes have, in turn, produced the need for even greater change if the public sector is to be capable of governing efficiently and responsibly. The challenges now facing government are numerous, including the need to recruit capable and committed young public servants, adapt to new information technology, manage changing intergovernmental relations, and, perhaps most important, hold the reformed administrative structures accountable to both political demands and legal standards. Some countries have already initiated new rounds of reform while others are still attempting to understand and absorb the consequences of changes motivated by new public management ideas. In Governance in the twenty-first century international experts recognise both the difficulty of making predictions and the need to consider the future in order to prepare the public sector for new challenges. The authors' predictions and recommendations are anchored in a thorough understanding of contemporary public administration. They point out that not only have previous reforms made yet more change necessary and inevitable but that the purpose of these reforms is to attempt to return government to the position of respect and competence it enjoyed in the past. B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh. Donald J. Savoie holds the Clément-Cormier Chair in Economic Development at the Université de Moncton, where he also teaches public administration.

Author : Jack W. Meek,Kurt Thurmaier
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452203256

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Networked Governance by Jack W. Meek,Kurt Thurmaier Pdf

In a unique contributed volume that features chapters written by top scholars paired with practitioner responses, students can see just how much the landscape of intergovernmental relations has evolved in recent years, with diminishing vertical flows of resources, and increased horizontal flows in the form of cross-jurisdictional and interlocal collaboration.

Author : Carl W. Stenberg,David K. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351182140

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Intergovernmental Relations in Transition by Carl W. Stenberg,David K. Hamilton Pdf

The field of intergovernmental relations has changed substantially over the past five decades. It maintains a critical and evolving role in the US federal system as well as in public policy and administration. Building upon the legacy of Deil S.Wright’s scholarship, this collection of essays by distinguished scholars, emerging thought leaders, and experienced practitioners chronicles and analyzes some of the tensions and pressures that have contributed to the current state of intergovernmental relations and management. Although rarely commanding media attention by name, intergovernmental relations is being elevated in the public discourse through policy issues dominating the headlines. Many of these intergovernmental issues are addressed in this book, including health insurance exchanges under the now-threatened Affordable Care Act, and the roles of the federal, state, and local governments in food safety, energy, and climate change.Contributors interpret and assess the impacts of these and other issues on the future directions of intergovernmental relations and management. This book will serve as an ideal text for courses on intergovernmental relations and federalism, and will be of interest to government practitioners and civic and nonprofit organization leaders involved in public policy and management.

Author : Robert W. Gage,Myrna Mandell
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017974232

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Strategies for Managing Intergovernmental Policies and Networks by Robert W. Gage,Myrna Mandell Pdf

Explores the management of intergovernmental relations--policies and networks.

Author : Robert Agranoff
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : 9781626164802

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Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management by Robert Agranoff Pdf

Introduction : politics, government, management across boundaries -- Federal framing of intergovernmental relations and intergovernmental management -- Integrating the federal system through law and politics -- Legally and politically based intergovernmental relations in practice -- Jurisdictional interdependence -- Managing interdependency -- Intergovernmental management partnerships with nongovernmental organizations -- Managing intergovernmental management partnerships -- The network era -- Organized intergovernmental management networks -- Conclusion : the past and future of intergovernmental management

Author : Edoardo Ongaro,Andrew Massey,Ellen Wayenberg,Marc Holzer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849807067

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Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European Union and the United States by Edoardo Ongaro,Andrew Massey,Ellen Wayenberg,Marc Holzer Pdf

This book provides solid academic evidence of a lively debate and dialogue between US and EU scholars about Multilevel Governance (MLG) and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR). Beyond the contingencies of the terms and the path dependency of their historical developments, there are elements of convergence and overlap. This publication is a good example of how academic transatlantic dialogues result in a stronger understanding of the premises of our concepts, and of the functioning of our systems.' - Geert Bouckaert, Public Management Institute and European Group for Public Administration, Leuven, Belgium This book represents a major attempt to draw together two fundamental streams of research; Intergovernmental Relations and Multi-Level governance. Combining US and European schools of thought, this timely volume outlines key areas of convergence and divergence.

Author : Tony Bovaird,Elke Loeffler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317435839

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Public Management and Governance by Tony Bovaird,Elke Loeffler Pdf

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective. It questions what it means to have effective policies, efficient management and good quality public services, and it explores how the process of governing could be improved. Key themes include: the challenges and pressures facing governments around the world; the changing role of the public sector in a ‘mixed economy’ of provision; governance issues such as ethics, equalities, transparency and citizen engagement. This revised and updated third edition includes eight new chapters which provide in-depth coverage of key new aspects of public management and governance. It also features a wide selection of international case studies and illuminating examples of how public policy, management and governance can be improved – and what happens when they fail. Each chapter is supplemented with discussion questions, group and individual exercises, case studies and recommendations on further reading. Public Management and Governance is one of the leading student textbooks in its field, featuring contributions from top international authors and covering a wide range of key topics in depth. It is an essential resource for all students on undergraduate and postgraduate courses in public management, public administration, government and public policy.

Author : Brainard Guy Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Intergovernmental cooperation
ISBN : OCLC:314091551

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Intergovernmental Relations and Multi-level Governance by Brainard Guy Peters Pdf

Author : Eugenio Caperchione,Carmine Bianchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030856984

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Governance and Performance Management in Public Universities by Eugenio Caperchione,Carmine Bianchi Pdf

This edited volume contributes to the ongoing research and practice on applying performance management to university governance. A comparative approach and international perspective of the issue is provided through extensive use of case studies and empirical findings. A specific focus is also placed on using performance governance applied to higher education institutions' Third Mission, and on enhancing decision makers’ ability to frame dynamic complexity. In this regard, specific attention is devoted to analyzing the cause-and-effect relationships in affecting public outcomes. This also includes managing trade-offs in both time and space, and detecting and counteracting unintended behavioral effects from the use of formal systems focused on quantitative measures for performance assessment.

Author : Timothy J. Conlan,Paul L. Posner
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Central-local government relations
ISBN : UCSC:32106017035913

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Intergovernmental Management for the Twenty-first Century by Timothy J. Conlan,Paul L. Posner Pdf

"Defines an agenda for improving the performance of America's intergovernmental system. Looks at the current state of intergovernmental relations, analyzes the system's fiscal underpinnings, and identifies principal tools to define intergovernmental management. Applies these themes to critical policy areas such as homeland security, education, welfare, health care, and the environment"--Provided by publisher.