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The coordination of public sector organizations : shifting patterns of public management / Geert Bouckaert, B. Guy Peters and Koen Verhoest.

Title
  1. The coordination of public sector organizations : shifting patterns of public management / Geert Bouckaert, B. Guy Peters and Koen Verhoest.
Published by
  1. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Author
  1. Bouckaert, Geert

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Additional authors
  1. Peters, B. Guy
  2. Verhoest, Koen.
Description
  1. xiii, 326 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "This book discusses the trajectories of creating specialized autonomous units. An analysis of the mechanisms and measures taken for granting autonomy to specialised 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"--Provided by publisher.
Series statement
  1. Public sector organizations
Subject
  1. Government business enterprises > Case studies
  2. Comparative politics
  3. Government business enterprises
  4. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Executive Branch
  5. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Affairs & Administration
  6. Politics and Government
  7. Public administration
Genre/Form
  1. Case studies
Contents
  1. Machine generated contents note: Pt. 1 Concepts, Theories and Methodology -- 1. Main Argument -- Specialization without Coordination is Centrifugal -- 2. Coordination: What Is It and Why Should We Have It? -- 3. Resources, Mechanisms and Instruments for Coordination -- 4. How To Map Coordination: Issues of Methodology -- Pt. 2 Specialization and Coordination in Seven Countries (1980-2005) -- 5. Coordination in New Zealand -- 6. Coordination in the United Kingdom -- 7. Coordination in Sweden -- 8. Coordination in the Netherlands -- 9. Coordination in France -- 10. Coordination in Belgium -- 11. Coordination in the United States -- Pt. 3 Cross-Country Comparison -- 12. Specialization and Coordination in Seven Countries: Findings and Discussion -- Appendix. Comparative Tables.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.