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This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting and overlapping
governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms.
Exploring the models that shape and reshape the daily operation of
public organizations, it explains the core features of public
bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day. From the rise
to supremacy of New Public Management to the growing preference for
alternatives, such as Digital Era Governance, Public Value
Management and New Public Governance, four world-renowned authors
launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and
co-existing paradigms. Advancing the 'public governance diamond' as
a critical tool for comparing the core features of governance
paradigms, this insightful book discusses the underlying
behavioural assumptions of these models and the challenges faced by
leaders when managing in a public sector. Informed by both key
theory and empirical analysis, this book will be crucial reading
for students and researchers seeking an authoritative voice on
competing and co-existing modes of governance. Public leaders and
managers, as well as public employees, will also benefit from its
insights into the varying and multifaceted dynamics of public
governance.
This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting and overlapping
governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms.
Exploring the models that shape and reshape the daily operation of
public organizations, it explains the core features of public
bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day. From the rise
to supremacy of New Public Management to the growing preference for
alternatives, such as Digital Era Governance, Public Value
Management and New Public Governance, four world-renowned authors
launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and
co-existing paradigms. Advancing the 'public governance diamond' as
a critical tool for comparing the core features of governance
paradigms, this insightful book discusses the underlying
behavioural assumptions of these models and the challenges faced by
leaders when managing in a public sector. Informed by both key
theory and empirical analysis, this book will be crucial reading
for students and researchers seeking an authoritative voice on
competing and co-existing modes of governance. Public leaders and
managers, as well as public employees, will also benefit from its
insights into the varying and multifaceted dynamics of public
governance.
European Integration and Local Government is an original
comparative review of the impact of the European Union on local and
regional governments throughout Europe.This book consists of ten
country case studies which show how the EU has affected local
government structures. These are supplemented by chapters which
provide comparisons between various countries, consider multiple
methodological and theoretical approaches to political integration,
discuss nation-building, networks, organization development and
analyse not only political integration, but the ability of the
administration to implement EU policies. The contributors suggest
that local governments have become legitimate players at the
international scene, are gaining more power and autonomy in
comparison to national governments and are strong promoters of
integration through their bilateral and multilateral agreements and
actions. They also argue that network and individual initiatives
are playing an increasingly important role, even if structural
features still determine the eligibility of EU funding. This book
will be of interest to policy makers both in local government and
at the European Union level, international organizations, and
academics and students.
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