Debating public administration : management challenges, choices, and opportunities /
editado por Robert F. Durant e Jennifer R.S. Durant. --
- Boca Raton : CRC, 2013.
- 341 p. : il.
- American Society for Public Administration. Series in Public Administration and Public Policy .
- 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. - 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.