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Gender Equality in Public Services

Chasing the Dream

By Hazel Conley, Margaret Page

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Equality of opportunity is a phrase that is embedded in the language of most organizations, even if it is not always identifiable in their practices. Since the civil rights movement in the US, and anti-discrimination legislation of the 1970s in the UK, jolted organizations on both sides of the...

To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

Critical Leadership

Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

By Paul Evans, John Hassard, Paula Hyde

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the...

Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge

Public Service Efficiency

Theories and Evidence

By Rhys Andrews, Tom Entwistle

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to...

To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management

International Contexts, Content and Development

Edited by Peter Carroll, Richard Common

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based on similar policy developed in other...

To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge

Trust and Confidence in Government and Public Services

Edited by Sue Llewellyn, Stephen Brookes, Ann Mahon

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has...

Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge

Crossing Boundaries in Public Management and Policy

The International Experience

Edited by Janine O'Flynn, Deborah Blackman, John Halligan

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

In the 21st century governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across boundaries to achieve goals. Whether issues are complex and challenging – climate change, international terrorism, intergenerational poverty– or more straightforward - provision of a single...

To Be Published July 17th 2013 by Routledge

Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships

Strategies for Turbulent Times

Edited by Carsten Greve, Graeme Hodge

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

Public Policy beyond the Financial Crisis

An International Comparative Study

By Philip Haynes

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

The economic crisis of 2008-2009 and beyond has provided the greatest challenge to public policy in the developed world since the Second World War, as the use of public monies to support banks and declining tax revenues have resulted in rising government borrowing and national debt. This book...

Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge

Branding in Governance and Public Management

By Jasper Eshuis, E.H. Klijn

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Politicians and public managers utilize branding to communicate with the public as well as to position themselves within the ever-present media now so central to political and administrative life. They must further contend with stakeholders holding contradictory opinions about the nature of a...

Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend....

Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

Social Accounting and Public Management

Accountability for the Public Good

Edited by Stephen P. Osborne, Amanda Ball

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Social accounting as a discipline has challenged the methodology and focus of the larger field of accounting over the last 50 years. More recently it has taken on greater significance for other subjects as well, addressing issues for public policy and management more broadly. These include the...

Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge

Public Management and Complexity Theory

Richer Decision-Making in Public Services

By Mary Lee Rhodes, Joanne Murphy, Jenny Muir, John A. Murray

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on attempts to eliminate unpredictability...

Published September 14th 2010 by Routledge

Making Public Services Management Critical

Edited by Graeme Currie, Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in...

Published December 7th 2009 by Routledge

Managing Complex Governance Systems

Edited by Geert Teisman, Arwin van Buuren, Lasse M. Gerrits

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Advances in public management sciences have long indicated the empirical finding that the normal state of public management systems is complex and that its dynamics are non-linear. Complex systems are subject to system pressures, system shocks, chance events, path-dependency and...

Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge

The Study of Public Management in Europe and the US

A Competitive Analysis of National Distinctiveness

Edited by Walter Kickert

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

This book presents an overview of the scientific study of public management, gathering together some of the most authoritative experts in this area of study in Europe and the United States, writing specifically about their respective countries. These essays seek to present the national...

Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge