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Public Management

Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions

By: Carolyn J. Hill,Laurence E. Lynn Jr

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Public Management

Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions

By: Carolyn J. Hill,Laurence E. Lynn Jr

Managing in the public sector requires an understanding of the interaction between three distinct dimensions—administrative structures, organizational cultures, and the skills of individual managers. Public managers must produce results that citizens and their representatives expect from their government while fulfilling their constitutional responsibilities. In Public Management: Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions, authors Carolyn J. Hill and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. argue that one-size-fits-all approaches are inadequate for dealing with the distinctive challenges that public managers face. Drawing on both theory and detailed case studies of actual practice, the authors show how public management that is based on applying a three-dimensional analytic framework—structure, culture, and craft—to specific management problems is the most effective way to improve the performance of America’s unique scheme of governance in accordance with the rule of law. The book educates readers to be informed citizens and prepares students to participate as professionals in the world of public management.

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1506316301

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Public Management

Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn

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Public Management

Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective, it establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management. Taking a boldly integrative approach, Laurence E. Lynn Jr. combines topics of best practice, performance, accountability and rule of law to provide a much-needed umbrella view of the topic. Well-written and illustrated with case study examples, this is one of the most exciting books on public management available today. As such it is an essential read for every student of public management, administration and public policy.

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210

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Psychology Press

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0415287308

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9780415287302

Teaching and Learning with Cases

A Guidebook

By: Laurence E. Lynn Jr

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Teaching and Learning with Cases

A Guidebook

By: Laurence E. Lynn Jr

Lynn introduces readers to the case method of instruction popularized by the John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Business School. This is a practical, process-oriented guide to teaching, writing, and learning with the case method. Lynn integrates insight from literature with his own extensive experience as a case teacher and writer, and as a trainer of case teachers and case writers. Lynn selects the broadest possible context for discussing the use of cases in teaching for maximum appeal to instructors and learners in diverse fields.

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CQ Press

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1483371093

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9781483371092

Public Management

Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions

By: Carolyn J. Hill,Laurence E. Lynn Jr

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Thinking and Acting in Three Dimensions

By: Carolyn J. Hill,Laurence E. Lynn Jr

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1506316298

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Public Management: Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

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Public Management: Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical, practical and future foundations for the comparative study of public management.

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Routledge

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1134445598

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Improving Governance

A New Logic for Empirical Research

By: Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,Carolyn J. Heinrich,Carolyn J. Hill

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Improving Governance

A New Logic for Empirical Research

By: Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,Carolyn J. Heinrich,Carolyn J. Hill

Policymakers and public managers around the world have become preoccupied with the question of how their goals can be achieved in a way that rebuilds public confidence in government. Yet because public policies and programs increasingly are being administered through a complicated web of jurisdictions, agencies, and public-private partnerships, evaluating their effectiveness is more difficult than in the past. Though social scientists possess insightful theories and powerful methods for conducting empirical research on governance and public management, their work is too often fragmented and irrelevant to the specific tasks faced by legislators, administrators, and managers. Proposing a framework for research based on the premise that any particular governance arrangement is embedded in a wider social, fiscal, and political context, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill argue that theory-based empirical research, when well conceived and executed, can be a primary source of fundamental, durable knowledge about governance and policy management. Focusing on complex human services such as public assistance, child protection, and public education, they construct an integrative, multilevel "logic of governance," that can help researchers increase the sophistication, power, and relevance of their work.

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Georgetown University Press

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158901345X

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Madison's Managers

Public Administration and the Constitution

By: Anthony M. Bertelli,Laurence E. Lynn (jr.)

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Madison's Managers

Public Administration and the Constitution

By: Anthony M. Bertelli,Laurence E. Lynn (jr.)

Combining insights from traditional thought and practice and from contemporary political analysis, Madison's Managers presents a constitutional theory of public administration in the United States. Anthony Michael Bertelli and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. contend that managerial responsibility in American government depends on official respect for the separation of powers and a commitment to judgment, balance, rationality, and accountability in managerial practice. The authors argue that public management—administration by unelected officials of public agencies and activities based on authority delegated to them by policymakers—derives from the principles of American constitutionalism, articulated most clearly by James Madison. Public management is, they argue, a constitutional institution necessary to successful governance under the separation of powers. To support their argument, Bertelli and Lynn combine two intellectual traditions often regarded as antagonistic: modern political economy, which regards public administration as controlled through bargaining among the separate powers and organized interests, and traditional public administration, which emphasizes the responsible implementation of policies established by legislatures and elected executives while respecting the procedural and substantive rights enforced by the courts. These literatures are mutually reinforcing, the authors argue, because both feature the role of constitutional principles in public management. Madison's Managers challenges public management scholars and professionals to recognize that the legitimacy and future of public administration depend on its constitutional foundations and their specific implications for managerial practice.

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JHU Press

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0801882621

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9780801882623

Public Management: Old and New

By: Laurence E. Lynn, Jr.

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Public Management

Organizations, Governance, and Performance

By: Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr,Kenneth J. Meier

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Public Management

Organizations, Governance, and Performance

By: Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr,Kenneth J. Meier

How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of public programs? What aspects of management can be distinguished? Can their separable contributions to performance be estimated? The fate of public policies in today's world lies in the hands of public organizations, which in turn are often intertwined with others in latticed patterns of governance. Collectively, these organizations are expected to generate performance in terms of policy outputs and outcomes. In this book, two award-winning researchers investigate the effectiveness of management in the public sector. Firstly, they develop a systematic theory on how effective public managers are in shaping policy results. The rest of the book then tests this theory against a wide range of evidence, including a data set of 1,000 public organizations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139502875

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9781139502870

Gambling with History

Ronald Reagan in the White House

By: Laurence I. Barrett

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Gambling with History

Ronald Reagan in the White House

By: Laurence I. Barrett

Presents a portrait and assessment of President Ronald Reagan and his intimates based on interviews and observations from 1980 to 1982.

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Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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0385179391

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9780385179393

Improving Governance

A New Logic for Empirical Research

By: Laurence E. Lynn Jr.,Carolyn J. Heinrich,Carolyn J. Hill

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A New Logic for Empirical Research

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