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Pursuing Horizontal Management: The Politics of Public Sector Coordination
B. Guy Peters
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Description for Pursuing Horizontal Management: The Politics of Public Sector Coordination
Paperback. Coordination has been the most poorly understood and least examined problem for governments since their inception, and this book discusses the causes, consequences, and possible remedies of coordination problems. Series: Studies in Government and Public Policy. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JPP; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of administrative and policy coordination. Through theory and four real-world case studies, he explores how—and whether—coordination can transform ordinary, flawed patterns of governing into more effective and efficient performance by the public sector.
This timely work arrives at a moment when coordination is proving ... Read more
From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of administrative and policy coordination. Through theory and four real-world case studies, he explores how—and whether—coordination can transform ordinary, flawed patterns of governing into more effective and efficient performance by the public sector.
This timely work arrives at a moment when coordination is proving ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Studies in Government and Public Policy
Condition
New
Weight
339 g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700620944
SKU
V9780700620944
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About B. Guy Peters
B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, USA and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Governance at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is the author of over seventy books, including The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models, also from Kansas.
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