CONTENTS
List of Figures = xii
List of Tables = xiii
PART Ⅰ: INTRODUCTORY
1. Public Management : Seven Propositions / Assumptions = 3
1. Public Management : Three Conventional Assumptions = 3
2. What This Book Argues = 3
3. Grid／Group Cultural Theory and Public Management = 7
4. Putting Cultural theory to Work in Analysing Public Management = 12
5. Combing Cultural and Historical Perspectives = 14
6. Modernity and Convergence in Cultural and Historical Perspective = 17
7. The Strechability and Cnetrality of the Culural Theory Frame = 20
8. The Plan of the Book = 21
2. Calamity, Condpiyarcy, and Chaos in Public Management = 23
1. Responses to Public-Management Disasters = 24
2. Four Types of Failure and Collapse = 27
3. Private Gain from Public Office = 28
4. Fiascos Reslting from Excessive Trust in Authority and Expertise = 35
5. Unresolved Conflict and Internecine Strife = 40
6. Apathy and Inertia : Lack of Planning, Initiative, and Foresight = 43
7. Accounting for Failure in Public Management = 45
3. Control and Regulation in Public Management = 49
1. 'Bossism' : Oversight and Review as an Approach to Control = 51
2. 'Choicism" : Control by competition = 55
3. 'Groupism" : Control by Contrived Randomness = 64
4. 'Chancism' : Control by Contrived Randomness = 64
5. Ringing the Changes : Hybrids, Variants, and Alternatives = 68
PART Ⅱ : CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way = 73
1. What Hierarchists Believe = 73
2. 'The Daddy of them All' : Confucian Public Management = 76
3. The European State-Builders : Cameralism and 'Policey Science' = 82
4. Progressivism and Fabianism : 'Servants of the New Reorganization' = 90
5. Conclusion = 96
5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Wat = 98
1. What Indivisualists Believe About Pubic Mangement = 98
2. Individualist Approaches, Old and New = 101
3. Recurring Themes in Individualist Public Management = 103
4. Conclusion = 118
6. Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way = 120
1. What Egalitarians Believe = 120
2. The Managerial Critique of Egalitarianism = 128
3. Varieties of Egalitarianism = 132
4. Conclusion = 142
7. Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way? = 145
1. Beyond Markets, Hierarchies, and Solidarity : A fatalist World of Public Management? = 145
2. Fatalism as a Greek Chorus in Public Management = 150
3. Fatalism as a Recipe for Good Public Management : Lotteries as an Organizational Way of Life = 157
4. Conclusion = 165
PART Ⅲ: RHETORIC, MODERNITY, AND SCIENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
8. Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture = 171
1. Do Ideas Develop Cumulatively in Public Management? = 171
2. The Rhetorical Dimension of Public Management = 173
3. Rhetoric and Culture in Public Management = 177
4. Better than the Devil You Know? Reaction and Change in Public Management = 189
5. Conclusion = 192
9. Contemporary Public Management : A New Global Paradigm/ = 194
1. Modern, Global, Inevitable? The Claim of a New Pradigm in Public Management = 194
2. Public-Management Modernization as Deep Change = 198
3. Public-Management Modernization as Irreversible Change = 200
4. Public-Management Modernization as Convergent Change = 201
5. Public-Management Modernization as Beneficent Change = 206
6. Modernization-or 'Fatal Remedies'? = 208
7. Conclusion = 219
10. Taking Stock : The State of the Art of the State = 222
1. Public Management and Cultural Theory : Just Another Superficial Fad? = 222
2. The 'Nursery Toys' Objection : Too Simple for Sophisticated Analysis = 226
3. The 'Soft Science' Objection : A Limited and Ambiguous Theory? = 230
4. The 'Wrong Tool' Objection : Is Cultural Theory Relevant for the What-to-Do Questions of Management? = 233
5. Conclusion = 240
Biobliography = 242
Index = 29
