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UNINA9910825941003321 |
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Autore |
Hood Christopher <1947-> |
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Titolo |
The art of the state : culture, rhetoric, and public management / / Christopher Hood |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-97051-4 |
9786611970512 |
0-19-152112-4 |
0-585-36481-8 |
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Edizione |
[[New edition].] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 261 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public administration |
Political science |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previous ed.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-257) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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