The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

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Christopher Hood (Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science)

The Art of the State

Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

Christopher Hood (Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Clarendon Press
22 September 2005

Political science & theory; Central government; Central government policies; Regional government; Management & management techniques; Public ownership & nationalisation; Civil service & public sector

This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the 'modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory and likely to remain so.

By: Christopher Hood (Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy Department of Government London School of Economics and Political Science)
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780198297659
ISBN 10: 0198297653
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 22 September 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART I. INTRODUCTORY; 1. Public Management: Seven Propostions; 2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management; 3. Control and Regulation in Public Management; PART II. CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way; 5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way; 6. Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way; 7. Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way?; PART III. RHETORIC, MODERNITY, AND SCIENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; 8. Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture; 9. Contemporary Public Management: A New Global Paradigm?; 10. Taking Stock: The State of the Art of the State

Reviews for The Art of the State: Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

The book stands in the tradition of Hood's other work - intellectually virtuosic, speculative in argument, and lifting itself above the detail it addresses. Richard Parry, University of Edinburgh, Journal of Social Policy, May 2000 a timely and important book, by one of Europe's most repected administrative scholars ... this text is tightly organized, well-written and thought provoking ... a clear, concise, comprehensive survey of major public management ideas, their strengths and weaknesses. * Richard J. Stillman II, New Institutionalism and Organizational Theory, A Review Article. * this well-written and very readable book on public management is rich with references to the ideas of past thinkers on the subject and to past practices of public management * Reason in Practice, Vol 1, No 1, 2001 * clearly written, theoretically amibitious and interesting, historically sensitive and analytically sharp work based on exceptionally wide reading that has been intelligently absorbed and organised ... it is strongly to be recommended both to the specialist whose ideas are likely to be severely challenged by Hood's approach and to the general reader who wishes to acquire an understanding of ideas on ways of organising institutions in general and those of public management in particular * Reason in Practice Vol 1, No 1, 2001 *