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Annotation The EGPA Yearbook provides an overall view of current scientific discussion concerning networks, particularly the governing of networks in European public administration. More than 30 presentations by researchers and practitioners of public administration in different European countries guarantee that the wide range of topics related to network governance, information technology, and also to other special issues of administrative and managerial reforms related to the subject is fully covered. The Yearbook deals with two main topics centred on governing and developing networks. In the first part, issues are related to different interpretations of networks involved in social policy ...
How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries are exemplars of the New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of public service management. Calling for public management to become a vibrant field of public policy, this valuable book consolidates recent work on the New Public Management and provides a basis for improving research and policy debate on managing public bureaucracies. A copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation
This volume takes a communications-oriented approach to a wide range of topics encompassing organization, management, political theory and practice, business-government relations, innovation processes, and IT. Offering a balanced, international presentation, it contains authoritative contributions from world-renowned experts representing various disciplines, including administrative law, organizational and political theory, phenomenology, public and business management, educational technology, psychology, and other fields. The book addresses typically neglected subjects such as communicating through humor, drama, film, poetry, fiction, and other creative forms.
Dill, Günter W.: the political dimensions of local government management reform: major aspects and international experience, S. 3-43 * Meyer, Wolfgang: promoting decentralisation and strengthening local government: the perspektive of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, S. 45-61 * Meyer, Wolfgang: promoting new public management reform: the perspektive of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, S. 187-203.
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This major introductory textbook is the first in a new series of public sector management texts from Routledge, and is designed primarily as a comprehensive, indepth and accessible resource for students of public sector management and administration. Filling a gap in the market, it covers highly topical issues such as the stakeholder public sector, devolution, decentralisation, policy-making and implementation and the wider context of public sector management. With an international authorship, this is more comprehensive, cohesive and international than any other textbook in the area.
Drawing from a wide array of case studies, this book analyses best-practice local strategies for increasing workforce skills. And it also takes a close look at the opportunities and challenges presented by international migration.