{"product_id":"9780817389215","title":"Public Management Reform and Innovation: Research, Theory, and Application","description":"Leading scholars present the most complete, as well as the most advanced,\u003cbr\u003e treatment of public management reform and innovation available.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The subject of reform in the public sector is not new;\u003cbr\u003e indeed, its latest rubric, reinventing government, has become good politics.\u003cbr\u003e Still, as the contributors ask in this volume, is good politics necessarily\u003cbr\u003e good government? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Given the growing desire to reinvent government, there\u003cbr\u003e are hard questions to be asked: Is the private sector market model suitable\u003cbr\u003e and effective when applied to reforming public and governmental organizations?\u003cbr\u003e What are the major political forces affecting reform efforts in public\u003cbr\u003e management? How is public management reform accomplished in a constitutional\u003cbr\u003e democratic government? How do the values of responsiveness, professionalism,\u003cbr\u003e and managerial excellence shape current public management reforms? In this\u003cbr\u003e volume, editors H. George Frederickson and Jocelyn M. Johnston bring together\u003cbr\u003e scholars with a shared interest in empirical research to confront head-on\u003cbr\u003e the toughest questions public managers face in their efforts to meet the\u003cbr\u003e demands of reform and innovation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Throughout the book, the authors consider the bureaucratic\u003cbr\u003e resistance that results when downsizing and reinvention are undertaken\u003cbr\u003e simultaneously, the dilemma public managers face when elected executives\u003cbr\u003e set a reform agenda that runs counter to the law, and the mistaken belief\u003cbr\u003e that improved management can remedy flawed policy. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069535502576,"sku":"9780817389215","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780817389215_p0.jpg?v=1763753503","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780817389215","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}