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Zusatztext "This volume is at the same time one of the most wide-ranging treatments of new public governance and one of the most coherent. The book itself mirrors the essence of what it advocates: a regime of diverse voices seeking to apply public values collaboratively as they articulate together an ideal of democratic governance." -- Charles T. Goodsell, Emeritus, Virginia Tech Center for Public Administration and Policy"This important book bridges the worlds of scholarship and public affairs, offering ground-breaking theoretical insights as well as concrete applications to the world of public management. The authors creatively link the new public governance to strong democratic values, applying their ideas to local governing institutions in an innovative way." -- Rosemary O'Leary, The University of Kansas Informationen zum Autor Douglas Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Director of the Executive MPA Program in the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University, USA. He has held a variety of public positions, both elected and appointed. His research interests focus on the role career public administrators play in ensuring effective and responsive systems of local democratic governance. He is coauthor of Foundations of Public Service (2013) Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities (2014). His work has appeared in the Handbook of Administrative Ethics, Oregon Politics and Government, The International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration, Public Administration Review, Administration & Society, and Administrative Theory & Practice. Brian J. Cook is Professor and Chair of the Center for Public Administration and Policy (CPAP) at Virginia Tech, USA. His teaching and scholarly interests center on public administration and constitutionalism, public administration and American political development, and the politics of public policy design and implementation, especially in the area of environmental policy. His most recent book is Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management (2007). He has served as a policy analyst, advisor, research consultant to several federal, state, and local government agencies. He is currently completing a revised edition of his 1996 book Bureaucracy and Self-Government. Klappentext The term New Public Governance describes increased reliance on network structures of authority to provide public services. In New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective , the contributors focus on a different set of issues than those commonly found in the current body of scholarship on NPG. The chapters are organized around the following central question: what can we do to insure that the structures and processes of authority in networked governance systems are firmly tethered to the underlying core values and legal principles of the political system? Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, the chapters provide the reader with "lessons learned from experience" about how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values that are at the center of the American constitutional and political system. Zusammenfassung Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners! this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked! contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I. Developing a Theory of Governance for NPG: What Should Be at Its Center? 1. The Foundations of New Public Governance, Douglas F. Morgan and Craig W. Shinn 2. Why a Con...
