Barry Quirk

Re-imagining Government (eBook, ePUB)

Public Leadership and Management in Challenging Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an age of austerity, public leaders and managers face a range of external challenges - fiscal, social and political. Combining theoretical insight, empirical commentary and practical experience, this book examines how democratic political systems work and how public decisions are made - and how they could be made better.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350311954
• Artikelnr.: 62718211

Autorenporträt

BARRY QUIRK is a Visiting Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and an Associate at the Independent Institute for Government, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
If Men Were Angels: Why We Need to Re-Imagine and Renew Government
Jumping to Conclusions: Public Interest, Public Value, Public Reason
Finding Common Cause: Cooperation, Community and the Commons
Deciding in a Democracy: Revealing Public Preferences and Balancing Biases
The Geography of Governing: the Plurality of People, the Uniqueness of
Places
Results-Driven Government: Leading and Managing for Public Purpose
Risky Business: Dealing with Dangers, Hazards and Harms
The Crunch and the Big Squeeze: From Private Recession to Public
Retrenchment
Better, Quicker, Cheaper: How to Reduce the Cost of Government
Conclusion.