The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations
Shifting Patterns of Public Management
Authors: Bouckaert, Geert, Peters, B. Guy, Verhoest, Koen
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- About this book
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This book discusses the trajectories of creating specialized autonomous units. An analysis of the mechanisms and measures taken for granting autonomy to specialized autonomous units and subsequently to coordinating them back is described. The book shows a range of patterns in the dynamics of specialization and coordination over 25 years.
- About the authors
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GEERT BOUCKAERT is Professor and Director of the Public Management Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
B. GUY PETERS is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
KOEN VERHOEST is Assistant Professor and Research Manager, Public Management Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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The Main Argument — Specialization without Coordination is Centrifugal
Pages 3-12
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Coordination: What Is It and Why Should We Have It?
Pages 13-33
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Resources, Mechanisms and Instruments for Coordination
Pages 34-66
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How To Map Coordination: Issues of Methodology
Pages 67-92
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Coordination in New Zealand (1980–2005)
Pages 95-113
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations
- Book Subtitle
- Shifting Patterns of Public Management
- Authors
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- Geert Bouckaert
- B. Guy Peters
- Koen Verhoest
- Series Title
- Public Sector Organizations
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-27525-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230275256
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-24015-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-31643-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 326
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