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Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management


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The study and practice of public management has undergone profound changes across the world. Over the last quarter century, we have seen

  • the increasing criticism of public administration as the over-arching framework for the provision of public services
  • the rise (and critical appraisal) of the ‘New Public Management’ as an emergent paradigm for the provision of public services
  • the transformation of the ‘public sector’ into the cross-sectoral provision of public services
  • the growth of the governance of inter-organizational relationships as an essential element in the provision of public services

In reality these trends have not so much replaced each other as elided or co-existed together – the public policy process has not gone away as a legitimate topic of study, intra-organizational management continues to be essential to the efficient provision of public services, whist the governance of inter-organizational and inter-sectoral relationships is now essential to the effective provision of these services.

This series is dedicated to presenting and critiquing this important body of theory and empirical study. It will publish books that both explore and evaluate the emergent and developing nature of public administration, management and governance (in theory and practice) and examine the relationship with and contribution to the over-arching disciplines of management and organizational sociology. Books in the series will be of interest to academics and researchers in this field, students undertaking advanced studies, and reflective policy makers and practitioners.

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Public Management in Times of Austerity

Public Management in Times of Austerity

1st Edition

Edited By Eva Moll Sørensen, Hanne Foss Hansen, Mads Bøge Kristiansen
June 16, 2017

Since 2008, the world has experienced an enormous decrease of wealth. By many measures the impact of the crisis was severe. The fall in GDP, the collapse of world trade, the rise in unemployment, and the credit slump reached bigger proportions than in any other crisis since World War II. Although ...

Making Public Policy Decisions Expertise, skills and experience

Making Public Policy Decisions: Expertise, skills and experience

1st Edition

Edited By Damon Alexander, Jenny Lewis
April 10, 2017

To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame ...

Critical Leadership Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

Critical Leadership: Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

1st Edition

By Paul Evans, John Hassard, Paula Hyde
February 10, 2017

Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the...

Modernizing the Public Sector Scandinavian Perspectives

Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Irvine Lapsley, Hans Knutsson
December 12, 2016

As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something different – a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘Scandinavian’ way of modernizing ...

Public Policy beyond the Financial Crisis An International Comparative Study

Public Policy beyond the Financial Crisis: An International Comparative Study

1st Edition

By Philip Haynes
August 03, 2016

The economic crisis of 2008-2009 and beyond has provided the greatest challenge to public policy in the developed world since the Second World War, as the use of public monies to support banks and declining tax revenues have resulted in rising government borrowing and national debt. This book ...

Public Service Efficiency Reframing the Debate

Public Service Efficiency: Reframing the Debate

1st Edition

By Rhys Andrews, Tom Entwistle
August 03, 2016

The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices – from performance management to ...

Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships Strategies for Turbulent Times

Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships: Strategies for Turbulent Times

1st Edition

Edited By Carsten Greve, Graeme Hodge
August 03, 2016

The global financial crisis hit the world in a remarkable way in late 2008. Many governments and private sector organizations, who had considered Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) to be their future, were forced to rethink their strategy in the wake of the crisis, as a lot of the available private...

Public Innovation through Collaboration and Design

Public Innovation through Collaboration and Design

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Ansell, Jacob Torfing
July 12, 2016

While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management. While ‘results-oriented’ public management may be here to stay, scholars and practitioners are now shifting their attention to the...

Creating and Implementing Public Policy Cross-sectoral debates

Creating and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-sectoral debates

1st Edition

Edited By Gemma Carey, Kathy Landvogt, Jo Barraket
November 20, 2015

In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and ...

Social Procurement and New Public Governance

Social Procurement and New Public Governance

1st Edition

By Josephine Barraket, Robyn Keast, Craig Furneaux
November 17, 2015

In recent years, the search for innovative, locally relevant and engaging public service has become the new philosophers’ stone. Social procurement represents one approach to maximising public spending and social value through the purchase of goods and services. It has gained increasing attention ...

Making Public Services Management Critical

Making Public Services Management Critical

1st Edition

Edited By Graeme Currie, Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding, Mark Learmonth
September 03, 2015

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in ...

New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

1st Edition

Edited By Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
July 22, 2015

In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. ...

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