Public management reform and innovation [electronic resource] : research, theory, and application

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frederickson, H. George.

Contributor:

Johnston, Jocelyn M., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative agencies--United States--Management.

Administrative agencies--United States--Reorganization.

Civil service reform--United States.

Public administration--United States.

Local Subjects:

Administrative agencies--United States--Management.

Administrative agencies--United States--Reorganization.

Civil service reform--United States.

Public administration--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Summary:

Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced, treatment of public management reform and innovation available. The subject of reform in the public sector is not new; indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics. Still, as the contributors ask in this volume, is good politics necessarily good government? Given the growing desire to reinvent government, there are hard questions to be asked: Is the private sector market model suitable and effective when applied to reforming public and governmental organizations? What are the major polit

Contents:

Contents; Introduction / H. George Frederickson; I. Theories and Concepts of Reform, Innovation, and Intervention in Public Management; 1. One Hundred Theories of Organizational Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly / Lawrence B. Mohr; 2. Theoretical Foundations of Policy Intervention / Janet A. Weiss ; 3. Do Goals Help Create Innovative Organizations? / Robert D. Behn; 4. Innovation by Legislative, Judicial, and Management Design: Three Arenas of Public Entrepreneurship / Nancy C. Roberts

II. Reengineering, Reform, and Innovation as Design Science: The Roles of Institutions and Political Contexts5. Where's the Institution? Neoinstitutionalism and Public Management / Karen G. Evans and Gary L. Wamsley ; 6. Assessing Public Management Reform with Internal Labor Market Theory: A Comparative Assessment of Change Implementation / Lois R. Wise and Per Stengard; 7. Good Budgetary Decision Processes / Patrick D. Larkey and Erik A. Devereux; 8. Implementing Mission-Driven, Results-Oriented Budgeting / Fred Thompson and Carol K. Johansen

III. The Management of Innovation and Reform: Organizational and Bureaucratic Factors9. The Pain of Organizational Change: Managing Reinvention / Patricia W. Ingraham and Vernon Dale Jones; 10. Institutional Paradoxes: Why Welfare Workers Cannot Reform Welfare / Marcia K. Meyers and Nara Dillon; 11. Contracting In: Can Government Be a Business? / Eric Welch and Stuart Bretschneider; IV. Politics, Governance, Reform, and Innovation; 12. Interest Groups in the Rule-Making Process: Who Participates? Whose Voices Get Heard? / Marissa Martino Golden

13. Dialogue between Advocates and Executive Agencies: New Roles for Public Management / Linda Kaboolian14. Reinventing Government: Lessons from a State Capital / Frances S. Berry, Richard Chackerian, and Barton Wechsler; Conclusion / Jocelyn M. Johnston; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8921-0

0-585-27410-X