Public Governance Paradigms: Competing and Co-Existing (Policy, Administrative and Institutional Change series) - Softcover

Torfing, Jacob; Bøgh Andersen, Lotte; Greve, Carsten; Klausen, Kurt K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1802202188 ISBN 13: 9781802202182

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jacob Torfing, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Carsten Greve, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802202188
• ISBN 13: 9781802202182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240