Public management and the metagovernance of hierarchies, networks and markets
the feasibility of designing and managing governance style combinations
- ISBN: 9783790820539
- Editorial: Springer International Publishing AG
- Fecha de la edición: 2008
- Lugar de la edición: New York. None
- Colección: Contributions to management science
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 399
- Idiomas: Inglés
What is modern governance? Is it the battle against #old-fashioned# hierarchy, or is it the restoration of key hierarchical values? Is it optimizing network management, or maximizing the benefits of market thinking in the public-sector? This book argues that it is the combination of all this. The next question is: In practice, how do successful public managers design and manage combinations of hierarchical, network and market governance? In other words: what is their rationale to apply metagovernance? Five case-studies show that metagovernance is a public management requisite: it amplifies the variation of actions public managers can take, and it prevents the three ideal-typical governance styles from undermining each other. Similar cases of strategic environmental policy- making in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany and the European Commission and one case of community policing in the Netherlands illustrate that successful public-sector managers are dealing with similar metagovernance challenges in different socio-politico- administrative cultures.
