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Michael Barzelay - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new Public Management improving research and policy dialogue
2019Co-Authors: Michael BarzelayAbstract:CONTENTS List of Figures and Boxes Preface Acknowledgments 1.Studying the New Public Management 2.Case Studies on Public Management Policy-Making 3.Comparative Analysis of Public Management Policy-Making 4.How to Argue about the New Public Management 5.Controversy and Cumulation in NPM Argumentation 6.Conclusion Notes References Subject Index Name Index
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Public Management as a design oriented professional discipline
2019Co-Authors: Michael BarzelayAbstract:While Public Management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing Public Management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making Public Management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that Public Management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in Public Management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of Public Management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum developm
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Public Management policymaking in spain the politics of legislative reform of administrative structures 1991 1997
Governance, 2010Co-Authors: Raquel Gallego, Michael BarzelayAbstract:This case study focuses on extending research knowledge about the politics of Public Management policymaking in Spain. The case involves legislating to change politically sensitive features of the central government and administration. The study explains such analytically significant event conditions as: an agenda-setting process that made a policy issue of the formal, structural attributes of state administration, an alternative-specification process that proceeded without complication, and a decisional process that lasted five years and in which political leaders' positions on the issue flip-flopped. Broadly speaking, the case analysis demonstrates that when policy proposals take the form of legislation, the politics of Public Management policymaking in Spain are highly influenced by political stream factors, themselves reflecting Spain's parliamentary form of government and relations between statewide and regional political parties.
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from new institutionalism to institutional processualism advancing knowledge about Public Management policy change
Governance, 2006Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Raquel GallegoAbstract:Research on Public Management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on Public Management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on Public Management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. This article develops the challenge in a more explicit fashion. It provides a theoretical restatement of the competing “institutional processualist” research program and compares its substantive findings with those drawn from the neoinstitutionalisms. The implications of this debate about Public Management reform for comparative historical analysis and neoinstitutional theories are discussed.
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innovating government wide Public Management practices to implement development policy the case of brazil in action
International Public Management Journal, 2006Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Evgeniya ShvetsAbstract:This article examines analytical and historical relationships between the topics of state capacity building and Public Management policy change. It does so by presenting an instrumental case study of Brazil in Action, a program that became the hallmark of the first presidential term of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. The development of the program is explained on the basis of institutional processual meta-theories of policy and organizational change. The operation of the program is considered in terms of the clinical analysis of organizational practices. Implications for research on innovative administrative practice, Public Management policy change, and state capacity building are considered.
Raquel Gallego - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Public Management policymaking in spain the politics of legislative reform of administrative structures 1991 1997
Governance, 2010Co-Authors: Raquel Gallego, Michael BarzelayAbstract:This case study focuses on extending research knowledge about the politics of Public Management policymaking in Spain. The case involves legislating to change politically sensitive features of the central government and administration. The study explains such analytically significant event conditions as: an agenda-setting process that made a policy issue of the formal, structural attributes of state administration, an alternative-specification process that proceeded without complication, and a decisional process that lasted five years and in which political leaders' positions on the issue flip-flopped. Broadly speaking, the case analysis demonstrates that when policy proposals take the form of legislation, the politics of Public Management policymaking in Spain are highly influenced by political stream factors, themselves reflecting Spain's parliamentary form of government and relations between statewide and regional political parties.
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from new institutionalism to institutional processualism advancing knowledge about Public Management policy change
Governance, 2006Co-Authors: Michael Barzelay, Raquel GallegoAbstract:Research on Public Management reform has taken a decidedly disciplinary turn. Since the late 1990s, analytical issues are less often framed in terms of the New Public Management. As part of the disciplinary turn, much recent research on Public Management reform is highly influenced by the three new institutionalisms. However, these studies have implicitly been challenged by a competing research program on Public Management reform that is emphatically processual in its theoretical foundations. This article develops the challenge in a more explicit fashion. It provides a theoretical restatement of the competing “institutional processualist” research program and compares its substantive findings with those drawn from the neoinstitutionalisms. The implications of this debate about Public Management reform for comparative historical analysis and neoinstitutional theories are discussed.
Michael Mcguire - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the limitations of Public Management networks
Public Administration, 2011Co-Authors: Michael Mcguire, Robert AgranoffAbstract:With regard to Public Management network theory development, among the most important issues that remain is a recognition of the limitations of networks. Networks often find reasonable solution approaches, but then run into operational, performance, or legal barriers that prevent the next action step. Networks face challenges in converting solutions into policy energy, assessing internal effectiveness, surmounting the inevitable process blockages, mission drift, and so on. While research on network Management continues unabated, it is necessary to consider how networks are limited and challenged, and how/when these limitations can be overcome.
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collaborative Public Management assessing what we know and how we know it
Public Administration Review, 2006Co-Authors: Michael McguireAbstract:Collaborative Public Management research is flourishing. A great deal of attention is being paid to the process and impact of collaboration in the Public sector, and the results are promising. This article reviews the literature on collaborative Public Management by synthesizing what we know from recent research and what we’ve known for quite some time. It addresses the prevalence of collaboration (both recently and historically), the components of emerging collaborative structures, the types of skills that are unique to collaborative Management, and the effects of collaboration. Collaborative Public Management research offers a set of findings that contribute to an emerging knowledge base that supplements established Public Management theory.
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collaborative Public Management new strategies for local governments
2004Co-Authors: Robert Agranoff, Michael McguireAbstract:Preface 1. Collaboration at the Core 2. Managing in an Age of Collaboration 3. Models of Collaborative Management 4. Collaborative Activity and Strategy 5. Linkages in Collaborative Management 6. Policy Design and Collaborative Management 7. Jurisdiction-Based Management 8. The Future of Public Management and the Challenge of Collaboration Appendixes A. Survey Design and Administration B. Economic Characteristics of the Sample Cities References Index
Christopher Hood - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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paradoxes of Public sector managerialism old Public Management and Public service bargains
International Public Management Journal, 2000Co-Authors: Christopher HoodAbstract:Abstract This chapter considers three paradoxes or apparent contradictions in contemporary Public Management reform–paradoxes of globalization or internationalization, malade imaginaire (or successful failure) paradoxes, and paradoxes of half-hearted managerialism. It suggests that these three paradoxes can be explained by a comparative historical institutionalism linked to a motive-and-opportunity analysis of what makes some Public service systems more susceptible to reform than others. It further argues that such explanations can be usefully linked together by exploring Public service reform from the perspective of ‘Public service bargains’ or PSBs (that is, explicit or implicit bargains between Public servants and other actors in the society). Accordingly, it seeks to account for the three paradoxes of Public Management reform by looking at the effect of different PSB starting-points on reform experience, and at the way politician calculations over institutional arrangements could account for PSB shifts in some circumstances but not others.
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the art of the state culture rhetoric and Public Management
1998Co-Authors: Christopher HoodAbstract:PART I. INTRODUCTORY PART II. CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN Public Management PART III. RHETORIC, MODERNITY, AND SCIENCE IN Public Management
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the new Public Management in the 1980s variations on a theme
Accounting Organizations and Society, 1995Co-Authors: Christopher HoodAbstract:Abstract Changes in Public sector accounting in a number of OECD countries over the 1980s were central to the rise of the “New Public Management” (NPM) and its associated doctrines of Public accountability and organizational best practice. This paper discusses the rise of NPM as an alternative to the tradition of Public accountability embodied in progressive-era Public administration ideas. It argues that, in spite of allegations of internationalization and the adoption of a new global paradigm in Public Management, there was considerable variation in the extent to which different OECD countries adopted NPM over the 1980s. It further argues that conventional explanations of the rise of NPM (“Englishness”, party political incumbency, economic performance record and government size) seem hard to sustain even from a relatively brief inspection of such cross-national data as are available, and that an explanation based on initial endowment may give us a different perspective on those changes.
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from old Public administration to new Public Management
Public Money & Management, 1994Co-Authors: Patrick Dunleavy, Christopher HoodAbstract:This article starts by looking at the now familiar idea of ‘New Public Management’ in the light of previous efforts at managerial reform, arguing that NPM has proved a fairly durable and consistent agenda. Then the major criticisms of NPM within and outside the Public service are reviewed, demonstrating the tensions and contradictions among the major criticisms. To endure, NPM must be capable of accommodating different poles of criticism by modifying its agenda, attempting to identify the areas where drawbacks in NPM methods are most salient. Finally, some future challenges for NPM are discussed: the prospect of outcomes outside the conventional distinction of traditional and modern Public Management styles; the risk of inappropriate cloning; and quasi‐constitutional issues about the core competencies of Public sector agencies.
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A Public Management FOR ALL SEASONS?
Public Administration, 1991Co-Authors: Christopher HoodAbstract:This articte discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as 'new Public Management' (NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explcinations for their apparent persuasiveness in the 1980s; and criticisms which have been made of the new doc- trines. Particular attention is paid to the claim that NPM offers an all-purpose key to better provision of Public services. TTiis article argues that NPM has been most commonly criticized in terms of a claimed contradiction between 'equity' and 'efficiency' values, but that any critique which is to survive NPM's claim to 'infinite reprogrammability' must be couched in terms of possible conflicts between administrative values. The conclusion is that the ESRC's Ivlanagement in Government' research irutiative has been more valuable in helping to identify rather than to definitively answer, the key conceptual questions raised by NPM.
Nidhi Vij - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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collaborative Public Management where have we been and where are we going
The American Review of Public Administration, 2012Co-Authors: Rosemary Oleary, Nidhi VijAbstract:This article analyzes the most important issues, concepts, and ideas in collaborative Public Management research and practice today. The issues, concepts, and ideas are (a) competing definitions of...
