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The Oxford Handbook of Public Management
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The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

Edited by Ewan Ferlie, Laurence E. Lynn, Christopher Pollitt

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Public Management gives an assessment of the major trends in public management, embracing both their intended and unintended effects. The articles comment on the key current issues. The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world. The last thirty years have seen major shifts in approaches to public sector management in many different countries. There is also a fierce debate across academic disciplines about contemporary public administration/management—some advocate the use of more managerial approaches, while others critique them. New functions have also arisen in the public sector, such as evaluation or management consulting, which require analysis. The individual articles include a mix of broad overviews, in-depth exploration of particular thematic areas and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics.

Keywords: public sector management, approaches, public administration, evaluation, management consulting

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Jun 2007
ISBN:
9780199226443
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online:
Sep 2009
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199226443.001.0001

Editors

Ewan Ferlie, editor
Ewan Ferlie has previously worked at the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent (1979-1986) and then the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, Warwick Business School (1986-1997), University of Warwick. He was awarded a personal chair there in 1996. Between 1997 and 2003, he was a Professor at Imperial College Business School, London, and joined the School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London as Professor and Head of Department in autumn 2003. He is also Director of the Centre of Public Services Organisations there. He has also been a non executive member on Warwickshire Health Authority.

Laurence E. Lynn, editor
Laurence E. Lynn Jr. is the Sidney Stein, Jr., Professor of Public Management Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Sid Richardson Research Professor at the University of Texas‐Austin, and Professor of Public Management at the University of Manchester.

Christopher Pollitt, editor
Christopher Pollitt began his working life as a civil servant in Whitehall, where he worked in policy divisions and as a private secretary to two ministers. Subsequently pursued an academic career, including periods at the Open University (1975-1990) and as Head of Department and Dean at Brunel University, West London (1990-1999). He is now BOF/ZAP Research Professor of Public Management at the Public Management Institute of the University of Leuven. Pollitt has also served as Editor of the international journal Public Administration (1980-1989), President of the European Evaluation Society (1996-98) and Scientific Director of the Netherlands Institute of Government (since 2004). He has carried out consultancy and advice work for many governmental organizations, including the European Commission, the OECD and the World Bank. His special research interests lie in comparative public management and in programme evaluation and performance audit.


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