Strategies for Governing : Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century / Alasdair Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Alasdair, Author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Time for a New Approach

1. Summary of Propositions

2. Acknowledging the State

3. States and Societies

4. Leaders and Their Goals

5. Strategies for Governing

6. Factors and Forces

7. Laws, Organizations, Programs, and Practices

8. Aspects of Institutional Stewardship

9. Challenges in Strategy-Making

10. The Struggle for Mastery

11. Danger, Strategic Fragility, and Realism

12. Time and Progress

13. Unexceptionalism

14. Efficiency or Extravagance

15. Tight or Loose Control

16. Separation or Connection

17. Present or Future

18. Commitment or Equivocation

19. Planning or Improvisation

20. Research

21. Teaching

22. Practice

Conclusion: Grand Challenges

A Glossary of States

Further Reading

Notes

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9781501747113

1501747118

9781501745607

1501745603

OCLC:

1090282479