Public Management As Art, Science, and Profession (Public Administration and Public Policy)

221 Pages·1996·1.34 MB·English

by  Laurence E. Lynn

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Public Management as Art, Science, and 
Profession
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Public Management as Art, Science, and Profession
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Contents
Introduction
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Figure and Ground: Public Management and Politics
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The Public Manager as Policymaker
Public Management as Policy Leadership,
The New Practice of Scholarship,
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The ''What Counts?" Literature,
Contents
Introduction
1. 
Figure and Ground: Public Management and Politics
Domesticated Government,
Contested Authority,
The Premodern Era,
A Professional Government,
Political Administration,
Process or Result?
Figure or Ground?
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The Public Manager as Administrator
Public Administration as Ground,
Public Officials as Figures,
Intellectual Foundations,
Administration,
Bureaucracy,
Borrowed Ideas,
The Public Interest,
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The Public Manager as Policymaker
Public Management as Policy Leadership,
The New Practice of Scholarship,
The New Scholarship for Practice,
The ''What Counts?" Literature,
Leadership Counts,
Organization Counts,
Public Management as Homiletics,
What's New?
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Reasoning for Management,
Working the Seams,
Achieving the Goal,
Welfare to Work,
Managing Health Care,
Breaking Bureaucracy,
Reinventing Government,
Teaching and Learning,
Leadership Counts,
Organization Counts,
Public Management as Homiletics,
What's New?
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Statecraft and Skill
Choice and Execution,
Awaiting the Millennium,
Technique or Wisdom?
Experience or Heuristics?
Principles or Rules?
The Analytical Manager,
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Knowledge for Practice
Learning to Manage,
Administrative Art and Social Science,
Gamesmanship,
Agency and Performance,
Institutional Design,
Social Preference and Accountability,
Policy Politics,
Leadership,
The New Institutionalism,
Networks,
The Cognitive/Emotional Actor,
Reasoning for Management,
Working the Seams,
Achieving the Goal,
Welfare to Work,
Managing Health Care,
Breaking Bureaucracy,
Reinventing Government,
Teaching and Learning,
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Art, Science, or Profession?
Knowledge and Jurisdiction,
Public Administration as Occupation,
Public Policy as Craft Guild,
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Acknowledgments
Students, colleagues, friends, scholars, and public managers at all levels of 
government, whom I encountered at work, in classrooms, and in the literature, 
have contributed to my understanding of public management. I thank them all.
As editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Lee Friedman
saw what he regarded as an important agrument in what might otherwise have 
been merely a literature survey. His advice and encouragement were 
instrumental in the creation of this book.
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Introduction
Public management has become an important domain of scholarship and 
teaching within two academic communities: public administration and public 
policy. The purpose of this book is to give definition to this domain. More 
specifically, it is about the relationship between knowledge and practice in 
public management and about the role of universities in creating and sustaining 
this relationship.
The justification for using ''public management" as a focus for academic inquiry 
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