1st Edition

Public Governance and Strategic Management Capabilities Public Governance in the Gulf States

By Paul Joyce, Turki F. Al Rasheed Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

This is a book about the modernization of public governance and the development of strategic states. It focuses on six Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait) and presents research findings from quantitative data analysis and comparative analysis of the trends and developments of the six Gulf states. The book analyses the workings of the... Read more

Part 1: The National Level

1. Challenges for the Gulf States

2. Transitions in Public Governance

3. Contingencies and Variations

4. Constitutions and Institutions

5. Reputations for Competitiveness and Governance

6. Becoming Visionary and Strategic

7. Governing for Results

Part 2: The Supranational Level

8. The Gulf Cooperation Council

Part 3: Commentary and Conclusions

9. Summary and Conclusions

Biography

Paul Joyce is Visiting Professor at Leeds Beckett University, UK, an Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Public Management at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium and an Associate at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Turki Faisal Al Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Department of Agriculture and Bio-systems Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, USA and a Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

"This book fills a gap in comparative information on public governance by providing evidence of what is happening in the Gulf States."Richard Boyle, Institute of Public Administration, University College Dublin, Ireland