The Public Sector (eBook)

Challenge for Coordination and Learning

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann (Herausgeber)

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1991 | 1., Reprint 2015
564 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-085701-6 (ISBN)

Inhalt

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues -- 1. Introduction: Issues and Context -- 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis -- 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings -- 4. Responding to Citizens’ Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector -- Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems -- 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues -- 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions -- 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems -- 8. The Blurring of the Distinction “State Versus Society” in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State -- 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The ‘Quangocratization’ of the World? -- 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue -- Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning -- 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation -- 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks -- 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning -- 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation -- 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis -- 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector -- 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: ‘Comptrol’ and ‘Interpolate Balance’ -- Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination -- 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility -- 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? -- 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions -- 21. Votes and Vetoes -- 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment -- 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government -- 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements -- 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion -- List of Contributors -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2015
• Reihe/Serie: de Gruyter Studies in Organization
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w ill., 21 b/w tbl.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Erfolgskontrolle • Öffentlicher Sektor • Wirtschaftslenkung
• ISBN-10: 3-11-085701-4 / 3110857014
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-085701-6 / 9783110857016