The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Helen Sullivan, Helen Dickinson, Hayley Henderson

      Pages 3-17

3. Understanding Public Servants from a Global Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Understanding Public Servants from a Global Perspective: An Introduction

      • Jessica Breaugh, Gerhard Hammerschmid

      Pages 21-40

   3. A Typology of the Latin American Civil Servant: Patronage Appointee, Technocrat, Loyalist, or Careerist

      • Diego A. Salazar-Morales, Lucas Amaral Lauriano

      Pages 41-62

   4. Government Employment Practices in East Asia: A Case Study of Merit-Based Recruitment and Selection of Civil Servants in Japan and South Korea

      • Pan Suk Kim

      Pages 63-80

   5. Contemporary Issues in Civil Service Management in South Asia: Principles and Practice in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

      • Habib Zafarullah, Abu Elias Sarker

      Pages 81-101

   6. Representative Bureaucracy in Canada: Multiculturalism in the Public Service

      • Andrew Lam, Eddy S. Ng

      Pages 103-124

4. The Philosophical Foundations for Public Servants: There and Back Again

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Theory of the Public Servant: Which Past Informs the Present? An Introduction

      • Jill L. Tao

      Pages 127-134

   3. Deep Thinkers and Their Influence on the Conception of the Public Servant: Reconciling Philosophical Roots

      • Jill L. Tao

      Pages 135-154

   4. From the Ottoman Legacy to Modern Public Management Systems: Evidence from Turkey, Kosova, and Kazakhstan

      • Artan Karini

      Pages 155-177

   5. Bolivar and Liberation from Spain: The Historical Development of the Public Servant in Colombia

      • José Luis Niño-Amézquita, David Niño-Molina

      Pages 179-201

   6. Public Servants in Modern India: Who Are They?

      • Shilpa Viswanath

      Pages 203-218

5. Values and Motivation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Values and Motivation: An Introduction

      • Eva M. Witesman

      Pages 221-224

   3. Deconstructing NPM: Public Service Values in a Global Public Administration

      • Carole L. Jurkiewicz, Edin Mujkic

      Pages 225-239

   4. Public Service Motivation and Its Implications for Public Service

      • Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Ulrich Thy Jensen, Anne Mette Kjeldsen

      Pages 241-258

   5. “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice

      • Victoria Cluley, Zoe Radnor

      Pages 259-276

The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant examines what it means to be a public servant in today’s world(s) where globalisation and neoliberalism have proliferated the number of actors who contribute to the public purpose sector and created new spaces that public servants now operate in. It considers how different scholarly approaches can contribute to a better understanding of the identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, positions and futures for the public servant, and how scholarly knowledge can be informed by and translated into value for practice. The book combines academic contributions with those from practitioners so that key lessons may be synthesised and translated into the context of the public servant.

• Public service
• Public service motivation
• Confucius
• Weber
• Law
• Politics
• Economics
• Government
• Globalisation
• Neo-liberalism
• NPM
• Public value
• Evidence based policy making
• Co-production
• Interest groups
• Think tanks
• Public service reform
• Professionalization
• Regulatory regime
• Disruptive technology

• Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  Helen Sullivan, Hayley Henderson

• Public Service Research Group, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, Australia

  Helen Dickinson

Helen Sullivan is professor of public policy and director of the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy, the Asia-Pacific’s leading public policy school. Helen’s research explores the changing nature of state-society relationships in the context of collaboration, urban politics, and public policy and service reform. Helen has a long-term commitment to bridging the gap between research and policy, and in 2016 she was made a National Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in recognition of her significant contribution to public administration. In 2019, Helen was elected to the executive board of the International Research Society on Public Management and elected president of the Australian Political Studies Association for the year 2020–21.

Helen Dickinson is professor of public service research and director of the Public Service Research Group at the School of Business, University of New South Wales, Canberra. Herexpertise is in public services, particularly in relation to topics such as governance, policy implementation, and stewardship of fourth industrial revolution technologies. In 2015, Helen was made a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and in 2019 awarded a fellowship at the Academy of Social Sciences. She has worked with a range of different levels of government and community organizations as well as privateorganizations in Australia, UK, New Zealand, and Europe on research and consultancy programs.

Hayley Henderson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Her research examines the role of urban policymaking and collaborative governance in addressing complex urban problems. In particular, the focus of her recent work has been on urban renewal and river basin management in Australian and Argentine cities.

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