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- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Introductory Remarks
- Public Management: The Word, the Movement, the Science
- Public Management: A Concise History of the Field
- Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century
- Public and Private Management Compared
- Public Management, Democracy, and Politics
- Law and Public Administration
- Public Management as Ethics
- Public Accountability
- Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations
- Postmodern Public Administration
- Networks and Inter-Organizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management
- Whatever Happened to Public Administration?: Governance, Governance Everywhere
- Virtual Organizations
- The Theory of the Audit Explosion
- Public–Private Partnerships and Hybridity
- Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management
- E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management
- Professionals in Public Service Organizations: Implications for Public Sector “Reforming”
- Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations
- Organizational Cultures in the Public Services
- Performance Management
- Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management
- Public Service Quality Improvement
- Budget and Accounting Reforms
- NGOS and Contracting
- Evaluation and Public Management
- International Public Management
- Management Consultancy
- Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management
- Afterword
- Author Index
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The basic argument of this article is that the emergent role of NGOs as providers of public services has created new and complicated public management dilemmas. In terms of structure, this article provides an overview and historical perspective on government contracting with NGOs and offers a conceptual framework to understand the relationship between government and NGOs in the contracting relationship. Next, it focuses on the management and policy challenges posed by contracting, then details the implications for citizenship of the greater reliance on NGOs for public service delivery. Finally, it discusses contracting in the context of current trends in public management and the implications of these trends on the users of public services and the citizenry more generally.
Keywords: NGOs, public services, public management, management dilemmas, government contracting, contracting relationship
Steven Rathgeb Smith, Professor of Public Affairs, Director, Nancy Bell Evans Center for Nonprofit Leadership, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington.
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- List of Contributors
- Introductory Remarks
- Public Management: The Word, the Movement, the Science
- Public Management: A Concise History of the Field
- Bureaucracy in the Twenty-First Century
- Public and Private Management Compared
- Public Management, Democracy, and Politics
- Law and Public Administration
- Public Management as Ethics
- Public Accountability
- Economic Perspectives on Public Organizations
- Postmodern Public Administration
- Networks and Inter-Organizational Management: Challenging, Steering, Evaluation, and the Role of Public Actors in Public Management
- Whatever Happened to Public Administration?: Governance, Governance Everywhere
- Virtual Organizations
- The Theory of the Audit Explosion
- Public–Private Partnerships and Hybridity
- Decentralization: A Central Concept in Contemporary Public Management
- E-Government: A Challenge for Public Management
- Professionals in Public Service Organizations: Implications for Public Sector “Reforming”
- Rethinking Leadership in Public Organizations
- Organizational Cultures in the Public Services
- Performance Management
- Striving for Balance: Reforms in Human Resource Management
- Public Service Quality Improvement
- Budget and Accounting Reforms
- NGOS and Contracting
- Evaluation and Public Management
- International Public Management
- Management Consultancy
- Change and Continuity in the Continental Tradition of Public Management
- Afterword
- Author Index
- Index
