Constructing the Craft of Public Administration Perspectives from Australia
“This is an important and timely assessment of how senior public servants ply their craft, greatly enriched by the manner in which it incorporates the views of departmental secretaries themselves and captures their innate scepticism of managerialism. One is left agreeing that good public administrat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2022, 2022
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 Public Administration and the Reform Agenda
- Chapter 2 Contemporary Management Ideas and Public Sector Reforms across Westminster Polities
- Part II The Macro Level –Policy Contexts and Environments
- Chapter 3 The Environments in which Departmental Secretaries Construct the Craft of Public Administration
- Chapter 4 The Impact of Contemporary Management Ideas: Their Influence on Public Administration
- Part III Exploring the Everyday Work Life of the Most Senior Public Servants
- Chapter 5 Departmental Secretaries: The Public Actors who Construct the Craft of Public Administration
- Chapter 6 Roles, Responsibilities and Boundary Riding
- Part IV Discussion, Implications and Conclusions
- Chapter 7 Discussion, Conceptual Model, Contributions and Implications
- Chapter 8 Conclusions