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State Management: An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management - Softcover

Lane, Jan-Erik

 
9780415492355: State Management: An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415492351 ISBN 13: 9780415492355
Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Jan-Erik Lane has taught as a professor in several universities around the globe. He has published numerous books and articles on many topics in political science. He was professor at the University of Geneva between 1996-2008 and is currently Mercator visiting professor at Heidelberg university

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415492351
ISBN 13 
9780415492355
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192