Debating public administration :  management challenges, choices, and opportunities 

 - Boca Raton :  CRC,  2013 
 - 341 p. 
<br/><br/> Section I. Rethinking administrative rationality in democratic republic  1. Managing successful organizational change in the public sector - Sergio Fernandez and Hal G. Rainey  2. Back to the future? Performance-related pay, empirical research, and the perils of persistence -  James L. Perry, Trent A. Engbers, and So Yun Jun  3. From "need to know" to "need to share": tangled problems, information boundaries, and the building of public sector knowledge networks - Sharon S. Dawes, Anthony M. Cresswell, and Theresa A. Pardo  4. Toward "strong democracy" in global cities? Social capital building, theory-driven reform, and the Los Angeles neighborhood council experience - Juliet Musso, Christopher Weare, Thomas Bryer and Terry L. Cooper  5. Reinventing administrative prescriptions: the case for democratic-constitutional impact statements and scorecards - David H. Rosenbloom  Section II: Recapitalizing organizational capacity  6. Betting on the future with a cloudy crystal ball? How financial theory can improve revenue forecasting and budgets in the states - Fred Thompson and Bruce L. Gates  7. Managing public service contracts: aligning values, institutions, and markets - Trevor L. Brown, Matthew Potoski and David M. Van Slyke   8. A return to spoils? Revisiting radical civil service reform in the United States - Stephen E. Condrey, Condrey and R. Paul Battaglio Jr.  9. A Solution in search of a problem? Discrimination, affirmative action, and the new governance - Sally Coleman Selden  Section III. Reconceptualizing institutions for new policy challenges  Chapter 10: Is the world "flat" or "spiky? Rethinking the governance implications of globalization for economic development - Richard C. Feiock,  M. Jae Moon and Hyung Jun Park  11. Spanning "bleeding" boundaries: humanitarianism, NGOs, and the civilian-military nexus in the Post-Cold War Era - Nancy C. Roberts  12. Left high and dry? Climate change, common-pool resource theory, and the adaptability of western water compacts - Edella Schlager, and Tanya Heikkila 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781466502369 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracia<br/>Mudança Organizacional<br/>Remuneração<br/>Gestão da Informação<br/> Orçamento Público<br/>Contrato Público<br/>Estudos Unidos
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Estudos Unidos