Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda

ISBN-13: 9780333928912 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str.

Perri 6;Etc.

Opis

The search for a more holistic approach to policy and management looks set to be as much a hallmark of public service reform in the early twenty first century as the changes introduced under the rubric of 'new public management' or 'reinventing government' were in the closing decades of the twentieth. Towards Holistic Governance presents an authoritative assessment of successes and failures to date and a new framework for analysis and implementation based on extensive research both in the UK - where the New Labour government has been an early enthusiast and pathfinder for 'joined-up government' just as its predecessors were for privatisation and contracting out - and elsewhere.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Holism: Past and Present.- Understanding Holistic Governance: Towards a Conceptual Framework.- The Case for and Against Holistic Governance.- Lessons from Theory: How Coordination Can Work.- Designing a Reform Strategy.- Interorganisational Relations and Practice.- Information Systems.- Accountability.- Finance.- The Prospects for Holistic Governance.

O autorze

Perri 6 is Director of the Policy Programme, Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy, King's College, London and a consultant to the Performance and Innovation Unit in the UK Cabinet Office.

Diana Leat is Visiting Professor, VOLPROF, City University Business School.

Kimberly Seltzer was formerly Researcher, DEMOS.

Gerry Stoker is Professor of Politics, University of Manchester.