The Public Sector : : Challenge for Coordination and Learning / / ed. by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Dunsire, Andrew,; Franz, Hans-Jurgen,; Gretschmann, Klaus,; Grimm, Dieter,; Grunow, Dieter,; Gunsteren, Herman R. van,; Hegner, Friedhart,; Hellstern, Gerd-Michael,; Herzberg, Roberta,; Hood, Christopher,; Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver,; Krüsselberg, Hans-Günter,; Majone, Giandomenico,; Ostrom, Elinor,; Ostrom, Vincent,; Rhodes, R. A. W.,; Sabatier, Paul A.,; Wirth, Wolfgang,
• HerausgeberIn: Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Reprint 2015
• Language: English
• Series: de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; 31
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (553 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues --; 1. Introduction: Issues and Context --; 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis --; 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings --; 4. Responding to Citizens’ Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector --; Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems --; 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues --; 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions --; 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems --; 8. The Blurring of the Distinction “State Versus Society” in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State --; 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The ‘Quangocratization’ of the World? --; 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue --; Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning --; 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation --; 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks --; 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning --; 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation --; 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis --; 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector --; 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: ‘Comptrol’ and ‘Interpolate Balance’ --; Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination --; 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility --; 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? --; 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions --; 21. Votes and Vetoes --; 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment --; 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government --; 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements --; 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion --; List of Contributors --; Index of Authors --; Index of Subjects --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110857016; 9783110635669
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110857016
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Franz-Xaver Kaufmann.