Moving beyond the crisis : reclaiming and reaffirming our common administrative space / / Demetrios Argyriades [and three others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910808357403321
• Autore: Argyriades Demetrios <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bruxelles : , : Bruylant, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 2-8027-4083-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (783 p.)
• Collana: Public Administration Today - Administration publique aujourd'hui
• Disciplina: 351.6
• Soggetti: Civil service; Civil service - Professional relationships; Crisis management in government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Collection; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Introduction. La notion d'espace administratif; Trois notions étroitement reliées; 1. La notion d'Ea comme énoncé d'une condition; 1.1. Formation de la notion; 1.2. Contenu de la notion : espace normatif limité; 2. La notion d'Ea : élément d'une construction; 2.1. Deux utilisations; 2.2. Imperfections et remèdes; 2.3. Professionnalisation et Ea; Références; I. L'espace administratif européen et ses implications : le cas du professionnalisme de la fonction publique dans les pays d'Europe continentale; Résumé; Introduction; 1. Une esquisse de la fonction publique européenne : les raisons de sa formation et ses traits communs1.1. Les raisons historiques d'une fonction publique statocentrique; 1.2. Les grands traits du régime de la fonction publique en Europe continentale; 2. Les fonctions publiques de l'Europe continentale en mouvement : vers un renforcement du professionnalisme des agents publics; 2.1. Les moyens de ce mouvement; 2.2. Les risques de réformes récentes portant sur la professionnalisation de la fonction publique européenne; 2.3. Des remèdes proposés; Bibliographie; II. La Gestión del Espacio Público Latinoamericano: Una Responsabilidad CompartidaAbstracto; 1. Introducción; 2. Lo Público vs lo Privado; 3. ; Gobierno; 3.1. Gobernación: Esquema Básico de Políticas relativas al ejercicio del Poder Público; 3.2. La Gestión Gubernamental es un factor determinante en la generación de "Políticas Gubernamentales"; 3.3. La Gobernabilidad coadyuva a la formulación de "políticas públicas"; 3.4. La Gobernanza deviene en "Políticas Ciudadanas"; 4. El Espacio Público; 5. El Espacio Público Latinoamericano; 6. Propuestas; Bibliografía; III. Ideological Differences in Administrative Reform: the Current Demotion of Public Service in Key Anglo-American DemocraciesAbstract; Introduction; 1. The Association of the Anglo-American Democracies; 2. The United Kingdom; 2.1. Tradition Barely Copes; 2.2. Thatcherism; 2.3. New Labour; 2.4. Big Society; 3. New Zealand; 3.1. Economic Salvation; 3.2. The New Public Management is Modified; 3.3. The Hybrid Model; 4. Australia; 4.1. Changing Course; 4.2. The Moran Report; 5. Canada; 5.1. No Slouch; 5.2. Revitalisation; 5.3. Perpetual Issues; 6. United States; 6.1. The Power of New Thinking; 6.2. American Exceptionalism6.3. Obama Stays the Course; References; IV. Ideological Differences in Administrative Reform Behind the Hollowing Out of the Administrative State; Abstract; Introduction; 1. Common Cause; 2. Globalisation; 3. Americanisation or American Exceptionalism?; 4. Spendthrift Government; 5. Purse Strings; 6. Different Drummers; 7. A Distant Compromise?; 8. More for Less; 9. Progressive Reform; Not Retreat Is Required; 10. Collaborative Governance; 11. The Changing Nature of Work; 12. The Locus of Administrative Reform; 13. Fresh Thinking; 14. Current Challenges and Questions
• Sommario/riassunto: With the financial meltdown and the economic crisis in their fifth year already no one can any longer be in doubt about their exceptional gravity, their truly global impact and their profound effects hurting vulnerable groups and the very poor especially. As the world looks for an exit from this economic crisis - the worst in eight decades - the focus of attention is naturally on the causes, the factors that account for its wide reach and severity, as well as on strategies that might bring it to a closure. The quest for exit strategies is at the very centre of the issues and concerns expl