The Public Administration Theory Primer

110 5: Th eories of Public Management objectively or conclusively demonstrating the scientifi c superiority of one view over ano ...

Traditional Management Th eory Th rust Forward 111 Doctrines of service provision (how organized and managed) a. Direct governm ...

112 5: Th eories of Public Management c. Neutral competence/professional expertise d. Entrepreneurshipl/advocacy Doctrines of p ...

Traditional Management Th eory Th rust Forward 113 Development is a particularly strong advocate of the New Public Management an ...

114 5: Th eories of Public Management in measurement, and a greater replication of fi ndings. Research using these techniques in ...

Leadership as Public Management 115 Good managers do not necessarily have to choose between competing goals. Th ey take advanta ...

116 5: Th eories of Public Management Robert D. Behn (1991) describes leadership as the key to improved perfor- mance in the Mas ...

Leadership as Public Management 117 Horizontal or collaborative leadership recognizes that eff ective leadership can create self ...

118 5: Th eories of Public Management operation. Th en, most remarkable of all, they go ahead and do what their calcu- lations s ...

Managing by Contract 119 Managing by Contract Th e contracting-out phenomenon goes by several names—government by proxy (Kettl 1 ...

120 5: Th eories of Public Management “fi ndings” based on these observations would include those discussed in the following par ...

Managing by Contract 121 Second, contracts for large-scale weapons systems, for airplanes, for space proj- ects, and for researc ...

122 5: Th eories of Public Management by delegating it to buyers. And contracting appears to decrease public manage- ment respon ...

Managing by Contract 123 Smith and Lipsky describe the tasks of nonprofi t social service managers in several ways. First, there ...

124 5: Th eories of Public Management Governance Although governance is the subject of Chapter 9, here we take up several impor- ...

Conclusions 125 Contracting may also have perverse eff ects on policy outcomes. Janice Dias and Steven Maynard-Moody (2007) show ...

126 5: Th eories of Public Management management theory. Th en, starting in the mid-1980s, the study of management in the public ...

Summary 127 granting greater discretion to managers, increasing citizen or customer choices, deregulating, organizing so that th ...

128 5: Th eories of Public Management During this time, however, advances in management theory were made in other fi elds. Impor ...

129 6 Postmodern Th eory Th e other families of theory described and evaluated in Th e Public Administra- tion Th eory Primer ge ...