Public Management in the Postmodern Era Challenges and Prospects

Fenwick, John; McMillan, Janice

Abstract

Challenging the traditional orthodoxies of public management, this timely and comprehensive book adopts a lively and critical approach to key questions of public policy and management. With state-of-the-art contributions from leading international scholars, Public Management in the Postmodern Era explores a public sector that has moved irreversibly beyond the familiar territory of New Public Management and the exhausted tenets of modernization. Within a global environment where the old explanations and solutions have failed, the book advances a postmodern analysis. It argues strongly its original case that postmodern perspectives are of immediate relevance to issues of practice as well as to enduring problems of theory.

• Book Type: Edited Book
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Aug 22, 2019
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Pages: 240
• Series Title: New Horizons in Public Policy series
• ISBN: 978184720 978 8
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2074078