Oxford Handbook of Public Management

An authoritative assessment on the major trends in Public Management following the major developments of the last thirty years
Leading international scholars from a range of disciplines comment on key issues
Combines scholarly rigour, engaging writing from senior authors and high policy relevance

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management: some advocate the use of more managerialist approaches; while others see managerialism as undermining democratic institutions. New roles have arisen, such as programme evaluation, management consulting, and reliance on NGOs and partnerships, which require new assessments. There is an intensified need for an analysis of contemporary public sector organisations, which are changing rapidly before our eyes.

It is thus time for an authoritative treatment of the major trends in public management, embracing both their intended and unintended consequences. This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues. The individual chapters include broad overviews, in depth explorations of particular thematic areas, and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics. The authors have space to develop their distinctive arguments. The editors provide an overall concluding chapter. The Handbook combines scholarly rigour, engaging writing and high policy relevance. It will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers and reflective public sector practitioners.

Readership: Academics, Researchers and Students of Public Administration and Public Management, Organization Studies, and Political Science; Practitioners and consultants in public sector organizations.



Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Christopher Pollitt: Introductory Remarks
Section I: Basic Frameworks
1: Christopher Hood: Public Management: The Word, The Movement, The Science
2: Laurence E. Lynn Jr.: Public Management: A Concise History of the Field
3: Kenneth J. Meier: Bureaucracy in the 21st Century
4: Hal G. Rainey and Young Han Chun: Public and Private Management Compared
5: Linda deLeon: Public Management, Democracy, and Politics
Section II: Theoretical and Disciplinary Perspectives
6: Anthony Bertelli: Law and Public Administration
7: J. Patrick Dobel: Public Management as Ethics
8: Mark Bovens: Public Accountability
9: Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer: Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations
10: Peter Bogason: Postmodern Public Administration
11: Erik-Hans Klijn: Networks and Interorganizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management
12: H. George Frederickson: Whatever Happened to Public Administration? Governance, Governance Everywhere?
13: Helen Margetts: Virtual Organizations
14: Michael Power: The Audit Explosion
Section III: Exploring Current Public Policy and Management Themes
15: Chris Skelcher: Public-Private Partnerships and Hybridity
16: Christopher Pollitt: Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management
17: Ignace Snellen: E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management
18: Ewan Ferlie and Keith J. Geraghty: Professionals in Public Services Organizations: Implications for Public Sector 'Reforming'
19: Jean-Louis Denis, Ann Langley, and Linda Rouleau: Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations
20: Robert Dingwall and Tim Strangleman: Organizational Cultures in the Public Services
21: Colin Talbot: Performance
Section IV: Functional Areas
22: Patricia W. Ingraham: Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management
23: John Øvretveit: Public Service Quality
24: Irene Rubin and Joanne Kelly: Budget amd Accounting Reforms
25: Steven Rathgeb Smith: NGOs and Contracting
26: Peter Dahler-Larsen: Evaluation and Public Management
Section V: National and International Comparisons
27: David Mathiasen: International Public Management
28: Denis Saint Martin: Management Consultancy
29: Isabella Proeller and Kuno Schedler: Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management
Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., and Christopher Pollitt: Afterword

Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Professor and Head of Department, the School of Management, King's College London, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, and Christopher Pollitt, BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, University of Leuven

Contributors:
Anthony Bertelli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia.
Peter Bogason, Professor of Public Administration, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Mark Bovens, Professor of Public Administration and Research Director, the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University.
Young Han Chun, Assistant Professor of Public Ddministration, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
Peter Dahler-Larsen, Professor of Evaluation, Dept of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern
Linda deLeon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver.
Jean-Luis Denis,
Robert Dingwall, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham.
J. Patrick Dobel, Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Washington.
Ewan Ferlie, Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
H. George Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas.
Keith Geraghty, previously a Research Assistant in the CPSO and is now a medical student.
Gregory C. Hill , Ph.D student in Political Science at Texas A&M University a
Christopher Hood, All Souls College, University of Oxford,
Joanne Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Erik-Hans Klijn, Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Ann Langley, Professor of Strategic Management and Research Methods and Director of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs, HEC Montréal.
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, the Bush School for Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University and the Sydney Stein Jr. Professor of Public Management Emeritus, University of Chicago.
Helen Margetts, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford,
David Mathiasen, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Kenneth J. Meier, Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University
Dr John Øvretveit, Director of Research at the Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Bergen University Medical School, Norway and at the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Christopher Pollitt, BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, University of Leuven
Michael Power, Professor of Accounting and a Director of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics
Isabella Proeller, Vice-Director and Senior Research Associate, the Institute of Public Services and Tourism at the University of St. Gallen.
Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
Linda Rouleau, Associate Professor, Management Department at HEC Montreal.
Irene S. Rubin, Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois
Denis Saint-Martin, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Administration, Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal.
Kuno Schedler, Professor for Public Management, University of St. Gallen Switzerland
Chris Skelcher, Professor of Local Government Studies and Director of Research at INLOGOV (the Institute of Local Government Studies) in the University of Birmingham's School of Public Policy.
Steven Rathgeb Smith, Professor of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
Ignace Snellen, Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and at Leyden University.
Tim Strangleman, Senior Research Fellow, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University
Colin Talbot, Professor of Public Policy, University of Nottingham, and Director of the Nottingham Policy Centre.
Aidan R. Vining,
David L. Weimer, Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Patricia Wallace Ingraham, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University's Maxwell School

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