Public Management in an Interconnected World

Essays in the Minnowbrook Tradition
Herausgeber: Bailey, Mary Timney; Mayer, Richard T.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays seeks to improve decision making among public administrators who operate organizations in an increasingly complex and interdependent world. Contributors with different expertise examine the theories and experience of public management in an effort to find ways to deal more effectively with the complex programs, policies, and problems confronting academecians and professionals in all the social and behavioral sciences. This entirely new analysis builds upon the thinking of two Minnowbrook conferences that have studied basic theory and decision making in public administration. An introduction looks back toward these conferences, and an epilogue looks ahead. The first part of the work finds a new multiversalist paradigm by studying the implications of interconnectedness for public managers. The second part of the book analyzes the reality and other challenges to the emergence of new public administration practice. Interconnectness, democracy, and epistemology is the subject of the third part of this study of major new directions in the field. A lengthy bibliography completes the overview that the book offers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780313274572
• ISBN-10: 0313274576
• Artikelnr.: 22369757

Autorenporträt

MARY TIMNEY BAILEY is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Master of Public Administration Program at the University of Cincinnati. She specializes in public administration theory and environmental policy. Her work has appeared in Public Administration Review , Public Productivity Review, and New Directions in Public Administration Research. RICHARD T. MAYER is Visiting Professor of Public Affairs at George Mason University and managing editor of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He coedited with H. George Frederickson, the symposium Minnowbrook II: Changing Epochs of Public Administration in Public Administration Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction by Frank Marini The Implications of Interconnectedness
for Public Managers Managing Interconnectedness: The New Challenge for
Public Administration by Jeff S. Luke Beyond Rationality: Decisionmaking in
an Interconnected World by Mary Timney Bailey "A Wild Patience": A Feminist
View of Ameliorative Public Administration by Camilla Stivers Humanizing
the Workplace: Incorporating Feminine Leadership by Carol J. Edlund
Reality and Other Challenges to the Emergence of New Public Administration
Practice The Feminization of Public Administration: Today's Reality and
Tomorrow's Promise by Mary E. Guy The Tug of History: The Operant Theory of
Social Control and the American Administrative State by Richard T. Mayer
Interconnectedness, Democracy, and Epistemology Knowledge Development and
Use in Public Administration: Views from Postpositivism, Poststructuralism,
and Postmodernism by Jay D. White American Constitutionalism in the
Interconnected World: Administrative Responsibilities in a Rhetorical
Republic by Robert C. Zinke Epilogue by Dwight Waldo Bibliography Index