The Political environment of public management - Kobrak, Peter (New York HarperCollins, 1993)
The public manager as politician -- The exercise of power -- Power, dependence, and effective management/ John P. Kotter -- The web of inclusion/ Sally Helgeson -- Goals, strtegy and structure -- assessing key stakeholders: who matters to hospitals and why?/ Myron Fottler -- A commitment to values/ Robert B. Denhardt -- The political part of the job description -- Sources of bureaucratic power -- Mobilizing political support/ Francis E. Rourke -- Congressional-bureaucratic interaction: occasions and resources/ Randall B. Ripley -- Customer relations and public participation -- Community-owned government: empowering rather than serving/ David Osborne and Ted Gaebler -- The critical role of street-level bureaucrats/ Michael Lipsky -- Street-level bureaucrats as policy makers -- The public manager as leader: the manager as entrepreneur -- Change masters and the intricate architecture of corporate culture change/ Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Coping with personnel and budgeting -- People/ James Q. Wilson -- The politics of expenditures: managing competition, accountability, and acceptability/ Irene S. Rubin -- The courts and the Media-opportunity or impediment? -- Public administrators and the judiciary: the new partnership/ David H. Rosenbloom -- Local government officials as news sources/ Phyllis Kaniss -- The bureaucrat's role in policy making: policy formulation -- Coalitions, sub governments and networks/ Jeffrey M. Berry -- A new vision of American federalism/ Alice M. Rivlin -- Program and regulatory implementation -- The case for performance monitoring/ Joseph S. Wholey -- Deregulation and politics of ideas in congress/ Paul J.Quirk -- The manager and the political system: the struggle to control the bureaucrat -- Accountability battles in State administration/ William T. Gormley Jr. -- Controlling bureaucracy: ethics and participation/ Kenneth J. Meier -- The ethical obligation to pursue change democratically -- Policy making in a democracy/ Robert B. Reich -- Reconciling public entrepreneurship and democracy/ Carl J. Belone.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Public administration; Bureaucracy