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Strategies for governing : reinventing public administration for a dangerous century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott) (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Public administration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : time for a new approach
  • Summary of propositions
  • Acknowledging the state
  • States and societies
  • Leaders and their goals
  • Strategies for governing
  • Factors and forces
  • Laws, organizations, programs, and practices
  • Aspects of institutional stewardship
  • Challenges in strategy-making
  • The struggle for mastery
  • Danger, strategic fragility, and realism
  • Time and progress
  • Unexceptionalism
  • Efficiency or extravagance
  • Tight or loose control
  • Separation or connection
  • Present or future
  • Commitment or equivocation
  • Planning or improvisation
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Practice
  • Conclusion : grand challenges.