Public management and complexity theory : richer decision-making in public service

By adopting a Complex Adaptive Systems approach to public services, this book shifts the focus from increasing steering techniques to identifying patterns of behaviour of the participants with the objective of increasing policy-makers' understanding of the factors that may enable more effective...

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Main Author: Rhodes, Mary Lee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2011
Series:Routledge critical studies in public management 6
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300 |a xvii, 231 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Setting the stage for a CAS analysis -- 2. Urban regeneration in Ireland -- 3. Healthcare information systems in Ireland -- 4. Advancing the case for complex adaptive systems in public administration -- 5. The impact of boundaries: identity, community and place -- 6. Vision and the dynamics of change -- 7. The role and effect of the private sector -- 8. Core and locale: the tension between the governing intent and the implementing outcome -- 9. In conclusion 
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