Strategies for Governing : : Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century /

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

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 Governin...

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

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