Public Management

How Effective Are Public Managers As They Seek To Influence How Public Organizations Deliver Policy Results? How And How Much Is Management Related To The Performance Of Public Programs? What Aspects Of Management Can Be Distinguished? Can Their Separable Contributions To Performance Be Estimated? The Fate Of Public Policies In Today''S World Lies In The Hands Of Public Organizations Which In Turn Are Often Intertwined With Others In Latticed Patterns Of Governance. Collectively These Organizations Are Expected To Generate Performance In Terms Of Policy Outputs And Outcomes. In This Book Two Award-Winning Researchers Investigate The Effectiveness Of Management In The Public Sector. Firstly They Develop A Systematic Theory On How Effective Public Managers Are In Shaping Policy Results. The Rest Of The Book Then Tests This Theory Against A Wide Range Of Evidence Including A Data Set Of 1000 Public Organizations.