Rethinking Public Governance

Author : Jacob Torfing
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Public administration
ISBN : 1789909767

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In this innovative book, Jacob Torfing, a leading scholar of the field, critically evaluates emerging ideas, practices and institutions that are transforming how public governance is perceived, theorised and conducted in practice. Identifying cutting-edge developments in public governance, this incisive book analyses new forms of political leadership, public management, public organisation, administrative steering, cross-boundary collaboration, public regulation and societal problem-solving. Examining some of the most significant instances of public governance transformation, chapters explore the effects of transformations from sovereign to interactive political leadership, from national to multi-level governance, and from hard to soft power. With a novel focus on the production of innovative public value outcomes, the book considers how these developments interact with and are influenced by new digital technologies and increasing globalisation. Torfing concludes with a reflection on how best to comprehend, study and take advantage of current and future transformations in public governance. A novel rethinking of how current societies are governed, this book will inspire students, scholars and practitioners of political science, public policy, regulation and governance, and public administration management to reconsider how public governance and administration may be organised in the future to present innovative solutions to societal problems.

Author : Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317496465

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Rethinking Governance by Mark Bevir,R. A. W. Rhodes Pdf

This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional economics or, neoliberalism and new institutionalisms. In doing so, it suggests that that the British state consists of a vast array of meaningful actions that may coalesce into contingent, shifting, and contestable practices. Based on original fieldwork, it examines the myriad ways in which local actors - civil servants, mid-level public managers, and street level bureaucrats - have interpreted elite policy narratives and thus forged practices of governance on the ground. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of governance and public policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3643958072

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043052235

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Rethinking Public Administration by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob Torfing
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789909777

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Rethinking Public Governance by Jacob Torfing Pdf

In this innovative book, Jacob Torfing, a leading scholar of the field, critically evaluates emerging ideas, practices and institutions that are transforming how public governance is perceived, theorised and conducted in practice. With a novel focus on the production of innovative public value outcomes, it identifies cutting-edge developments in public governance and considers how it may transform in the future to present innovative solutions to societal problems.

Author : Vinod Rai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9353336317

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RETHINKING GOOD GOVERNANCE by Vinod Rai Pdf

Public institutions support good governance, which, in turn, promotes sustainable economic development and, thereby nurtures the welfare of the people. The vital bond between a people and its government is that of trust, and these public institutions help maintain that trust.

Author : Tibor Babos,Sameeksha Desai,Andreas Knorr
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783643908070

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Rethinking Public Governance by Tibor Babos,Sameeksha Desai,Andreas Knorr Pdf

Contributions for this volume are based on the conference "Rethinking Public Governance" held in Budapest at Hungary's National University of Public Service within the framework of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) in 2015. The papers cover a range of topics, including the importance of education and of efficient management of government resources for successful democracy building processes, analysis of formality and informality in public administration, and analysis of select ethnic minority problems. The papers represent various approaches connecting research and policy. Dr. Tibor Babos is a chief government advisor on security policy at the Prime Minister's Office, Hungary. Dr. Sameeksha Desai is an associate professor at Indiana University, School of Public & Env. Affairs. Dr. Andreas Knorr is professor of economics at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.

Author : Sean Lusk,Nick Birks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137377586

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Rethinking Public Strategy by Sean Lusk,Nick Birks Pdf

Strategy is vital to effective and efficient public service delivery as well as successful governance and leadership. This new text provides a concise yet systematic overview of the achievements, downfalls and complexities of public strategy in today's globalized and often market-driven world. It describes the place of strategy in civic societies whose citizens are more interconnected and vocal than ever. It shows that successful strategic planning goes well beyond problem-solving to developing adaptable plans that can evolve as requirements and circumstances change. And it explains why muddling through simply won't work. Emphasizing the importance of applying a variety of techniques to the process of strategy-creation, Rethinking Public Strategy reassesses the key factors that can deliver significant improvements in public services and build public value. It looks at why public strategy is distinctive, as well as the principles it has in common with the corporate domain. This text includes numerous case studies from around the globe – from South Africa to Singapore, the USA to Germany, and from China to the Czech Republic – that ground the exposition in real experience. Based on state-of-the-art research by two expert practitioners in the field, it offers an essential guide to the art of strategy in the contemporary public sector, and encourages readers to evaluate critically the various approaches to strategy.

Author : Stephen Bell,Andrew Hindmoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521712831

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Rethinking Governance by Stephen Bell,Andrew Hindmoor Pdf

Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the strategies used by governments to help govern', the authors counter the view that governments have been decentred. They show that far from receding, states are in fact enhancing their capacity to govern by developing closer ties with non-government sectors. Identifying five 'modes' of government (governance through hierarchy, persuasion, markets and contracts, community engagement, and network associations), Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor use practical examples to explore the strengths and limitations of each. In so doing, they demonstrate how modern states are using a mixture of governance modes to address specific policy problems. This book demonstrates why the argument that states are being 'hollowed out' is overblown.

Author : Carsten Greve,Graeme Hodge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136264566

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Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships by Carsten Greve,Graeme Hodge Pdf

The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private funding upon which PPPs relied, was suddenly no longer available to the same extent. At the same time, governments and international organizations, like the European Union, were striving to make closer partnerships between the public sector and the private sector economy a hallmark for future policy initiatives. This book examines PPPs in the context of turbulent times following the global financial crisis (GFC). PPPs can come in many forms, and the book sets out to distinguish between the many alternative views of partnerships; a project, a policy, a symbol of the role of the private sector in a mixed economy, or a governance tool - all within a particular cultural and historical context. This book is about rethinking PPPs in the wake of the financial crisis and aims to give a clearer picture of the kind of conceptual frameworks that researchers might employ to now study PPPs. The crisis took much of the glamour out of PPPs, but theoretical advances have been made by researchers in a number of areas and this book examines selected new research approaches to the study of PPPs.

Author : Marc Holzer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789907094

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Rethinking Public Administration by Marc Holzer Pdf

Governments have always required large public organizations, or bureaucracies, to deliver on their promises. Yet most people leading and managing those agencies lack understanding of the full toolkit of values, insights and findings that are necessary. Considering how public administration can learn from a wide range of disciplines ranging from history and the humanities to management and the social sciences, Marc Holzer delineates new ways of transforming organizations and building trust in governments.

Author : Christopher Ansell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789909197

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Rethinking Theories of Governance by Christopher Ansell Pdf

Considering whether theories of governance are useful for helping policymakers to meet and tackle contemporary challenges, this insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical.

Author : Lewis, Mervyn K.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789906400

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Rethinking Public Private Partnerships by Lewis, Mervyn K. Pdf

Public private partnerships (PPPs) have been a controversial approach to procuring public infrastructure services. Against a background of recent trenchant criticism of PPPs, Mervyn K. Lewis, a leading scholar in the area, re-examines their utility. He questions what PPPs can and cannot do, why governments choose this route and whether PPPs can ever be good value for money.

Author : Stephen Bell,Andrew Hindmoor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139480017

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Rethinking Governance by Stephen Bell,Andrew Hindmoor Pdf

Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the strategies used by governments to help govern', the authors counter the view that governments have been decentred. They show that far from receding, states are in fact enhancing their capacity to govern by developing closer ties with non-government sectors. Identifying five 'modes' of government (governance through hierarchy, persuasion, markets and contracts, community engagement, and network associations), Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor use practical examples to explore the strengths and limitations of each. In so doing, they demonstrate how modern states are using a mixture of governance modes to address specific policy problems. This book demonstrates why the argument that states are being 'hollowed out' is overblown.

Author : Christopher Ansell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Legitimacy of governments
ISBN : 178990918X

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Rethinking Theories of Governance by Christopher Ansell Pdf

Are theories of governance useful for helping policymakers and citizens meet and tackle contemporary challenges? This insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical. By arguing that useful theory tells us what to ask, not what to do, Christopher Ansell investigates what it means for a theory to be useful. Analysing how governance theories address a variety of specific challenges, chapters examine intractable public problems, weak government accountability, violent conflict, global gridlock, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources. Finding significant tensions between state- and society-centric perspectives on governance, the book concludes with a suggestion that we refocus our theories of governance on possibilities for state-society synergy. Governance theories of the future, Ansell argues, should also strive for a more fruitful dialogue between instrumental, critical and explanatory perspectives. Examining both the conceptual and empirical basis of theories of governance, this comprehensive book will be an invigorating read for scholars and students in the fields of public administration, public policy and planning, development studies, political science and urban, environmental and global governance. By linking theories of governance to concrete societal challenges, it will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with these fields.