The Projectification of the Public Sector

Damian Hodgson, Mats Fred, Simon Bailey , Patrik Hall

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English

Routledge
18 March 2019

Politics & government; Economics; Project management; Production & quality control management; Public ownership & nationalisation

Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

In recent decades, we have witnessed an increasing use of projects and similar temporary modes of organising in the public sector of nations in Europe and around the world. While for some this is a welcome development which unlocks entrepreneurial zeal and renders public services more flexible and accountable, others argue that this seeks to depoliticise policy initiatives, rendering them increasingly technocratic, and that the project organisations formed in this process offer fragmented and unsustainable short-term solutions to long-term problems.

This volume sets out to address public sector projectification by drawing together research from a range of academic fields to develop a critical and theoretically-informed understanding of the causes, nature, and consequences of the projectification of the public sector. This book includes 13 chapters and is organised into three parts. The first part centres on the politics of projectification, specifically the role of projects in de-politicisation, often accomplished by rendering the political “technical”. The chapters in the second part all relate to the reframing of the relationship between the centre and periphery, or between policy making and implementation, and the role of temporality in reshaping this relation. The third and final part brings a focus upon the tools, techniques, and agents through which public sector projectification is assembled, constructed, and performed.

Edited by: Damian Hodgson, Mats Fred, Simon Bailey, Patrik Hall
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780367183332
ISBN 10: 0367183331
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 18 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Damian Hodgson is Professor of Organisational Analysis at Alliance Manchester Business School and Co-Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, University of Manchester, UK. Mats Fred is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. Simon Bailey is a researcher at the University of Kent, UK. His interests are in the sociological study of medicine, organisation, learning, and policy. Patrik Hall is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, Sweden.