This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today. It examines their competing outlooks, values, tools and assumptions and using a wide range of examples from different areas of management around the world their implications for practice.

The text sets out three contrasting 'logics' for management performance, professionalism and politics and shows how public managers act on the interplay between these for effective results. Relating all three logics to a wide range of diverse contexts from police services to healthcare, social services to educational providers the text shows how managers can simultaneously perform to a high standard, act professionally through their work, and cope with internal and external politics.

Incorporating the latest theories and practices, this comprehensive book will appeal to readers around the world wanting to understand, and contribute to, public management today.

A systematic overview of the field of Public Management in a range of contexts
Provides an original conception of Public Management as balancing the interplay between three key logics
Ideal for both students and professionals working in the field, with a dual focus on theory and practice

Vorwort
This major new text on the theory and practice of public management provides a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today. It examines their competing outlooks, values, tools and assumptions and using a wide range of examples from different areas of management around the world their implications for practice.

Autorentext

Mirko Noordegraaf is Professor of Public Management at the Utrecht School of Governance (USG), Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Zusammenfassung
This systematic introduction to Public Management provides the tools and theoretical understanding to improve Public Management practice, whilst integrating a focus throughout on the importance of interplay between performance, professionalism and politics for all public service providers.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. The Rise of Public Management.- 3. Competing Logics: Theories and Tools.- 4. Managing Performance.- 5. Managing Professionalism.- 6. Managing Politics.- 7. Public Management Practices.- 8. Conclusions.