The term governance does not have a settled definition today, and it has at least three main
meanings. The first is international cooperation through nonsovereign bodies outside the …

Public administration as an academic discipline has more or less crumbled during the recent
decades of research into the public sector. It has become outdated, losing its status as the …

Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now
central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered. This book provides the first …

First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice
models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to …

Deliberative democracy has become the central reference point for democracy theorists over
the last decade or so, influencing normative frameworks and the ways we conceptualize the …

Names: Gunter, Helen, editor. Title: New public management and the reform of
education/edited by Helen Gunter, Emiliano Grimaldi, David Hall, Roberto Serpieri …

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us, like taxes, into
services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other …

It is both rather strange and quite predictable that such an obvious matter as the relationship
between men, masculinities and managements should be a subject for silence. This cannot …

Recent decades have seen the study of politics invaded by economic theories, methods and
techniques. This book gives a concise, non-technical account of these'public choice'theories …

In a new branch of a discipline, it is possible to point to its academic pioneers and their
individual contributions. This is the case with administrative reform which was in the 1960s …