Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets The Feasibility of Designing and Managing Governance Style Combinations /

• Main Author: Meuleman, Louis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2008.
• Series: Contributions to Management Science,
• Subjects: Business.; Organization.; Planning.; Industrial organization.; Business and Management.; Industrial Organization.

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 ne...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical framework
• Research approach
• Strategic policy making: Four soil protection cases
• Street level policy-making: Community policing
• Possibilities and limitations of metagovernance as public management
• Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity
• Conclusions
• Further research questions
• Summary
• Epilogue.