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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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Bureaucracy in a Democratic State

A Governance Perspective

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

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Bureaucracy in a Democratic State

A Governance Perspective

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

Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental democratic principles—can actually promote democracy. Drawing from both the empirical work of political scientists and the qualitative work of public administration scholars, the authors employ a "governance approach" that considers broad, institutionally complex systems of governance as well as the nitty-gritty details of bureaucracy management. They examine the results of bureaucratic and political interactions in specific government settings, locally and nationally, to determine whether bureaucratic systems strengthen or weaken the connections between public preferences and actual policies. They find that bureaucracies are part of complex intergovernmental and interorganizational networks that limit a single bureaucracy's institutional control over the implementation of public policy. Further, they conclude that top-down political control of bureaucracy has only modest impact on the activities of bureaucracy in the U.S. and that shared values and commitments to democratic norms, along with political control, produce a bureaucracy that is responsive to the American people.

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JHU Press

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0801889456

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Madison's Managers

Public Administration and the Constitution

By: Anthony M. Bertelli,Laurence E. Lynn

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Madison's Managers

Public Administration and the Constitution

By: Anthony M. Bertelli,Laurence E. Lynn

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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0801883199

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9780801883194

American Intergovernmental Relations

Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues

By: Laurence J. O'Toole

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American Intergovernmental Relations

Foundations, Perspectives, and Issues

By: Laurence J. O'Toole

American Intergovernmental Relations provides a broad survey of the system's historical development and its current structure, combining editorial comment with a selection of readings that range from classic documents to analyses of today's most pressing intergovernmental issues and disputes."--BOOK JACKET.

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1568024053

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Public Management

Organizations, Governance, and Performance

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

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Organizations, Governance, and Performance

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Bureaucracy in a Democratic State

A Governance Perspective

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

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A Governance Perspective

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