Management for the Public Domain

Recent years have seen an explosion of new prescriptions for and debate about public sector management. In almost all cases the analyses put forward of the public domain have been conditioned consciously or unconsciously by the nature of management in the private sector. Even where substantial differences have been recognised they have tended to focus on absent private attributes in terms of ''non-market'' or ''not-for-profit management'' rather than positively as for example public sector management this important new book Stewart Ranson and John Stewart argue that such an approach inevitably leads to neglect of the distinctive purposes conditions and tasks of the public domain and the values by which these could be realised.Management for the Public Domain sets out a perspective on public sector management which describes not what is but rather points the way to what could be. The authors suggest that it is from this perspective which has grown out of a critical analysis of the social economic and political changes in the United Kingdom since the early 1970s that approaches to management can be developed which can strengthen the public domain.Written by leading authorities in the field Management for the Public Domain will contribute to the wider international debate on public management and will be essential reading for students and practitioners alike.