The Black Hole of Public Administration / Ruth Hubbard & Gilles Paquet

• Autore: Hubbard Ruth <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2010; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2012; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (540 p.)
• Disciplina: 351.71
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Politics and government; Canada Politique et gouvernement
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PaquetGilles
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 468-499) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction from 'Big G' government to 'small G' governance -- Part I : The dynamics of the broader context -- The clerk as révélateur -- Toward an autopoietic federalism -- Part II : Pathologies of governance illustrated -- Forty-four forums on some twenty-four wicked problems -- Quantophrenia -- Disloyalty -- The neurotic state -- Fiscal imbalance as governance failure -- Part III : Repairs in many dimensions -- ALterniative service delivery : the thin edge of the wedge -- P3 and "the porcupine problem" -- The myth of the public service as a lump of labour -- Design challenges for the strategic state : bricolage and sabotage -- Ombuds as producers of governance -- Conclusion : Governance and beyond -- Postface : The saborage of harms.
• Sommario/riassunto: Public administration in Canada needs to change. In their recognizably rebellious style, the authors demand that public administration scholars and senior level bureaucrats pull their heads out of the sand and confront the problems of the current system and develop a new system that can address the needs of Canada today.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Black Hole of Public Administration
• ISBN: 1-280-69042-9; 9786613667366; 0-7766-1918-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155521103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Governance series ; ; 24. . 1487-3052