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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825941003321

Autore

Hood Christopher <1947->

Titolo

The art of the state : culture, rhetoric, and public management / / Christopher Hood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-281-97051-4

9786611970512

0-19-152112-4

0-585-36481-8

Edizione

[[New edition].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

351

Soggetti

Public administration

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Bringing a new conceptual framework and valuable historical perspective to various approaches to public management, this study uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory.