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Strategies for governing : reinventing public administration for a dangerous century / Alasdair Roberts.
LIBRA JF1351 .R528 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 197 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Addresses the crisis of relevance in the field of public administration and offers a bold new way of thinking about research, teaching and practice"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : time for a new approach
- Summary of propositions
- Acknowledging the state
- States and societies
- Leaders and their goals
- Strategies for governing
- Factors and forces
- Laws, organizations, programs, and practices
- Aspects of institutional stewardship
- Challenges in strategy-making
- The struggle for mastery
- Danger, strategic instability, and realism
- Time and progress
- Unexceptionalism
- Efficiency or extravagance
- Tight or loose control
- Separation or connection
- Present or future
- Commitment or equivocation
- Planning or improvisation
- Research
- Teaching
- Practice
- Conclusion : grand challenges.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott). Strategies for governing.
- ISBN:
- 9781501714405
- 1501714406
- 9781501747113
- 1501747118
- OCLC:
- 1090279344
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