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The Art of the State - Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,689
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The Art of the State - Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management (Hardcover, New): Christopher Hood

The Art of the State - Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management (Hardcover, New)

Christopher Hood

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Why does public management - the art of the state - so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation can be applied to government? Why do we find contradictory recipes for the improvement of public services? Are the forces of modernity set to produce world-wide convergence in ways of organizing government? This important new study aims to explore such questions, central to current debates over public management. Combining contemporary and historical experience, it employs grid/group cultural theory as an organizing frame and method of exploration. Using examples from different places and eras, the study seeks to identify the recurring variety of ideas about how to organize public services. And contrary to widespread claims that modernization will bring a new global uniformity, it argues that variety is unlikely to disappear from doctrine and practice in public management.

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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 1998
First published: July 1998
Authors: Christopher Hood (Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Government)
Dimensions: 224 x 145 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-828040-8
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Civil service & public sector
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > General
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LSN: 0-19-828040-8
Barcode: 9780198280408

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