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Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
The creation of rules that govern processes or behavior is essential to any organization, but these rules are often maligned for creating inefficiencies. This book provides the …
The Responsible Contract Manager
Contract management is a critical skill for all contemporary public managers. As more government duties are contracted out, managers must learn to coordinate and measure the …
Managing within Networks
The real work of many governments is done not in stately domed capitols but by a network of federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental …
Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector
Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions …
China's Sent-Down Generation
During China's Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao Zedong's "rustication program" resettled 17 million urban youths, known as "sent downs," to the countryside for manual labor and …
How Management Matters
Both "bureaucracy" and "bureaucrats" have taken on a pejorative hue over the years, but does the problem lie with those on the "street-level" - those organizations and people the …
Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
Formal systems of comprehensive planning and performance-based management have a long if disappointing history in American government. This is illustrated most dramatically by the …
Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State
"Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State" is the first in-depth look at the influence of performance measurement on the effectiveness of the federal government. To do this, …
The Future of Public Administration around the World
A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the …
The Collaborative Public Manager
Today's public managers not only have to function as leaders within their agencies, they must also establish and coordinate multi-organizational networks of other public agencies, …
Public Values and Public Interest
Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles - often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman …
Federal Management Reform in a World of Contradictions
Proposals for reform have dotted the federal management landscape in the United States for more than 50 years. Yet these efforts by public management professionals have frequently …