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The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing
world as a process of planned change is increasingly being
recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development
management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among
individuals, agencies, and interest groups that can constrain
behaviour, as well as provide incentives for collaborative action.
Paradoxes inevitably emerge in policy network practice and design.
The ability to manage government departments and operations has
become less important than the ability to navigate the complex
world of interconnected policy implementation processes. Public
sector reform policies and programmes, as a consequence, are a
study in the complexities of the institutional and environmental
context in which these reforms are pursued. Building on theory and
practice, this book argues that advancing the theoretical
frontlines of development management research and practice can
benefit from developing models based on innovation, collaboration
and governance. The themes addressed in Public Sector Reforms in
Developing Countries will enable public managers in developing
countries cope in uncertain and turbulent environments as they seek
optimal fits between their institutional goals and environmental
contingencies.
The demands associated with good governance and good public
management are at an all-time high. Yet the discipline of Canadian
public administration is in flux, and the time is ripe for an open
and frank analysis of its state and possibilities. Canadian Public
Administration in the 21st Century brings together emerging voices
in Canadian public administration to consider current and future
prospects in the discipline. A new wave of scholars has brought new
energy, ambition, and perspectives to the field. In this book they
take stock and build on established traditions and current trends,
focusing on emerging, or reemerging, issues and challenges. The
book identifies and analyzes the emergent research agenda in public
administration, focusing on Canada to illustrate key concepts,
frameworks, and issues. It consists of three thematically organized
sections, exploring processes, structures, and principles of
Canadian public administration. It addresses the broad, emergent
trend in processes of service delivery or policy implementation
generally referred to as the new public governance. It then
critically examines the structural and institutional dimensions of
Canadian public administration in light of recent directions in the
field. A complete exploration of new principles, methods, values,
and ethics in Canadian public administration research and practice
rounds out the coverage. Bringing together emerging scholars, the
book bridges the gap between established analytical traditions and
novel theoretical and methodological approaches in the field. It
proposes a new, more interdisciplinary public administration
increasingly focused on governance and not solely on management.
The key difference between success and failure for most governance
systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the
existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges
that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems
differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation
and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and
actions. They also differ in how they build the effective
coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and
actions during implementation, and how to build competence and
knowledge to sustain implementation. This book presents the
strategic foundations for government's role in fostering and
adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world. It shifts
the focus of the discipline from an overtly retrospective analysis
to a prospective analysis, incorporating the role of foresight
techniques and instruments. Above all, it stimulates debate about
the practical implications of governance as an emergent
future-oriented framework of public management. This challenging
book aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion between academics
and practitioners, and encourage advanced students to take a new
perspective on Public Management during these volatile times.
The key difference between success and failure for most governance
systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the
existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges
that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems
differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation
and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and
actions. They also differ in how they build the effective
coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and
actions during implementation, and how to build competence and
knowledge to sustain implementation. This book presents the
strategic foundations for government's role in fostering and
adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world. It shifts
the focus of the discipline from an overtly retrospective analysis
to a prospective analysis, incorporating the role of foresight
techniques and instruments. Above all, it stimulates debate about
the practical implications of governance as an emergent
future-oriented framework of public management. This challenging
book aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion between academics
and practitioners, and encourage advanced students to take a new
perspective on Public Management during these volatile times.
This book analyzes economic development policy governance in
northern Ontario over the past thirty years, with the goal of
making practical policy recommendations for present and future
government engagement with the region. It brings together scholars
from several disciplines to address the policy and management
challenges in various sectors of northern Ontario's economy,
including the mining, pulp and paper, and tourism industries, and
both small- and medium-sized businesses. Governance in Northern
Ontario assesses the role of the provincial government and its
economic policy intervention in the region's economic development.
The contributors evaluate the relationship between the provincial
and local governments and the business sector, and also looser
structures of policy networks, such as those of First Nations and
other interested community groups. Focusing on the nature of
partnerships between governments and societal interests, Governance
in Northern Ontario makes a significant contribution to the
theories and practice of public policy governance in
socioeconomically disadvantaged regions.
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