Governance and Public Management: Strategic Foundations for Volatile Times

ISBN-13: 9780415704625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 196 str.

Charles Conteh; Thomas J. Greitens; David K. Jesuit

Opis

The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies, and actions. They also differ in how they build the effective coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and actions during implementation, and how to build competence and knowledge to sustain implementation. This book presents the strategic foundations for government's role in fostering and adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world.

Spis treści

Preface: Overview and Aims  Part I: Introduction: Overview and Aims  2. Public Management for Volatile Times: Towards Deliberative, Collaborative, and Adaptive Policy Governance  Part II: Developing Prospective in Public Management  3. Foresight: The Way Out of the Crisis?  4. Strategic Management in Turbulent Environments: Re-inventing Regional Economic Hubs in Canada  5. Constructing Public Management Futures During Fiscal Stress  Part III: Collaboration and Conflict  6. Public Management of Sustainable Energy Development: A Comparative Analysis of Policies in Italy, Denmark, Canada, and the United States  7. Managing Services and Voicing Values: The Water Sector in Italy  8. A Collaboration-Conflict Contradiction in Public Management: Current State and Future Developments  Part IV: Deliberation and Trust  9. Citizen Deliberation in Public Management: Recognizing Its Value, Overcoming its Challenges  10. Inequality, Government Performance and Trust in Public Managers  11. The Challenge of Trust in 21st Century Public Management  Part V Conclusions  12. Can Prospective in Public Management Succeed?  13. Postscript: Concluding Observations and Directions for Further Research

O autorze

Charles Conteh is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Political Science at Brock University, Canada.

Thomas J. Greitens is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Central Michigan University, USA.

David K. Jesuit is Director of the School of Public Service and Global Citizenship and a Professor of Political Science at Central Michigan University, USA.

Ian Roberge is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Associate Professor at Glendon College, York University, Canada.