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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Roberts, Alasdair,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Time for a New Approach -- PART I. KEY IDEAS -- 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 -- PART II. DILEMMAS IN STRATEGY-MAKING -- 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 -- PART III. APPLYING THE APPROACH -- 20. Research -- 21. Teaching -- 22. Practice -- Conclusion: Grand Challenges -- A Glossary of States -- Further Reading -- Notes -- Index