The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management: some advocate the use of more managerialist approaches; while others see managerialism as undermining democratic institutions. New roles have arisen, such as programme evaluation, management consulting, and reliance on NGOs and partnerships, which require new assessments. There is an intensified need for an analysis of contemporary public sector organisations, which are changing rapidly before our eyes. It is thus time for an authoritative treatment of the major trends in public management, embracing both their intended and unintended consequences. This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues. The individual chapters include broad overviews, in depth explorations of particular thematic areas, and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics. The authors have space to develop their distinctive arguments. The editors provide an overall concluding chapter. The Handbook combines scholarly rigour, engaging writing and high policy relevance. It will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers and reflective public sector practitioners. Contributors to this volume - Anthony Bertelli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy, University of Georgia. Peter Bogason, Professor of Public Administration, Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. Mark Bovens, Professor of Public Administration and Research Director, the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University. Young Han Chun, Assistant Professor of Public Ddministration, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Peter Dahler-Larsen, Professor of Evaluation, Dept of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Linda deLeon, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado at Denver. Jean-Luis Denis, Robert Dingwall, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham. J. Patrick Dobel, Professor of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Washington. Ewan Ferlie, Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. H. George Frederickson, Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. Keith Geraghty, previously a Research Assistant in the CPSO and is now a medical student. Gregory C. Hill , Ph.D student in Political Science at Texas A&M University a Christopher Hood, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Joanne Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. Erik-Hans Klijn, Associate Professor, Public Administration Department, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Ann Langley, Professor of Strategic Management and Research Methods and Director of the M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs, HEC Montreal. Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs, the Bush School for Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University and the Sydney Stein Jr. Professor of Public Management Emeritus, University of Chicago. Helen Margetts, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, David Mathiasen, Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Kenneth J. Meier, Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts, Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University Dr John Ovretveit, Director of Research at the Medical Management Centre, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Bergen University Medical School, Norway and at the Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden. Christopher Pollitt, BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management, Public Management Institute, University of Leuven Michael Power, Professor of Accounting and a Director of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics Isabella Proeller, Vice-Director and Senior Research Associate, the Institute of Public Services and Tourism at the University of St. Gallen. Hal G. Rainey, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Administration and Policy of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. Linda Rouleau, Associate Professor, Management Department at HEC Montreal. Irene S. Rubin, Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois Denis Saint-Martin, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Administration, Department of Political Science, Universite de Montreal. Kuno Schedler, Professor for Public Management, University of St. Gallen Switzerland Chris Skelcher, Professor of Local Government Studies and Director of Research at INLOGOV (the Institute of Local Government Studies) in the University of Birmingham's School of Public Policy. Steven Rathgeb Smith, Professor of Public Affairs, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. Ignace Snellen, Emeritus Professor of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and at Leyden University. Tim Strangleman, Senior Research Fellow, Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University Colin Talbot, Professor of Public Policy, University of Nottingham, and Director of the Nottingham Policy Centre. Aidan R. Vining, David L. Weimer, Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Patricia Wallace Ingraham, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Syracuse University's Maxwell School