State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction
to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of
basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making,
principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon
recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform
strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation,
tendering and bidding, decentralization, team production and
privatization.
This book argues that we should look upon the variety of models
or approaches to public management or public administration as all
belonging under "state management." The so-called "working state"
in a well-ordered society involves government delivering services,
paying for social security and respecting the rule of law. In this
text, Jan-Erik Lane systematically examines the key approaches to
the study of how government attempts to achieve these goals,
discussing the pros and cons of alternative frameworks of
analysis.
Each chapter discusses a different issue within state management
that is integral to the broader debate, including:
- Public regulation
- The relationship between the law and the state
- Combining ecology and policy making
- Multi-level governance
- The virtues and vices of public-private partnerships
- Policy implementation
Presenting a clear overview of how the state operates when
government sets out to deliver public services, and generating
questions to encourage new research, State Management is a valuable
new text for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in
political science, public administration and public management.
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