"Context in Public Policy and Management: The Missing Link?" ed. by Christopher Pollitt
Edward Elgar Publishing | 2013 | ISBN: 78195514X 9781781955130 9781781955147 | 465 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book will prove insightful to academics, as well as to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in government, public policy, public management, public administration and political science.
Contents
Contributors
Preface: Context - a missing link?
Acknowledgements
PART I Framing and understanding
1.Context in the context - missing the missing links in the field of public administration
2.Contexts: forms of agency and action
3.Constituting context?
4.The intransigent context: glimpses at the history of a problem
5.Three visions of context as history
6.Numbers in context: applying Frege's principles to public administration
PART II Putting context into theory (and theory into context)
7.Institutions in context, and as context
8.Can cultural theory give us a handle on the difference context makes to management by numbers?
9.Context, theory and rationality: an uneasy relationship?
10.Contexts and administrative reforms: a transformative approach
11.Context in public policy: implications of complexity theory
12.The service-dominant context of public services: a suitable case for treatment?
13.Explaining contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reforms: reflections on some ways forward
Second link
Part III Empirical applications
14.What we know so far and how to proceed: contextual variables in NPM reform research
15.Context in governance networks: complex interactions between macro, meso and micro. A theoretical exploration and some empirical evidence on the impact of context factors in Taiwan, Spain and the Netherlands
16.Seeing context where there's no "there" there: the EU/USA financial crises and the missing state
17.The context of public administration from a neo-institutionalist point of view: an analysis with Finland as the case
18.The uses and abuses of historical context: a case study in the 'mutualisation' of public services
19.Context and accountability: factors shaping performance audit
20.The role and significance of context in comparing country systems
21.Hospitals and the dynamics of multiple contexts
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PART IV Reflections
22.Context: what kind of missing link?
Index