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Government Performance: Why Management Matters (Johns Hopkins Studies in Governance and Public Management) - Hardcover
"The book's theme is an important and timely one: that management matters and that management reform would be most fruitfully approached as a long-term building of competencies and components necessary to effect change. The qualitative and quantitative data have been used to craft one of the more comprehensive and integrated pictures of management available in the field. In undertaking such a project, and succeeding as they have, the authors have done an enormous service to the field." -- Barbara S. Romzek, Associate Dean, University of Kansas
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A must read for students of public management.Choice
"This slim volume, a seminal study, provides a positive picture of public managers eager to learn and to create management capacity, which is posited as the key to governmental performance... A must read for students of public management." -- Choice
Patricia W. Ingraham is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Philip G. Joyce is an associate professor of public administration at the George Washington University. Amy Kneedler Donahue is an assistant professor of public administration and political science at the University of Connecticut.
Scholars and practitioners of public management have stressed the importance of such varied concepts as efficiency, process, systems and capacity as key to running effective government programmes. While acknowledging the usefulness of each of these criteria, the authors of this book argue that one quality above all is crucial to the overall performance of government: effective management. Examining government performance at the federal, state and local levels, the authors present analyses of public management systems in all 50 US states, the 35 largest cities, 40 large counties and a number of federal agencies. They examine systems for financial management, human resources management, information technology management, capital management and systems for managing results. While acknowledging the political context of all public administration systems, they argue that effective management of these systems nevertheless provides the key to good government performance.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0801872278
- ISBN 13 9780801872273
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages216
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