Public Management and Administration - Owen E.hughes

public administration 2–4, 6, 17–43, 46, 60,
116, 132, 149–52, 162, 277–81
and public policy 7, 116
and strategy 132
as a field of study 277–81
as a paradigm 2–4
definition 17, 46
external constituencies 202, 204–6
financial management 165, 169–71
Golden Age 30–2, 37, 162
impersonal system 18–19, 22, 24
input-dominated 37
market-based 4
outstanding success 43
performance management 37–8, 149–52
precedent, ‘the files’ 22
problems of 32–43
process orientation 6
separation from politics 25–7, 31, 43
theoretical basis 21–4, 60
traditional model 17–43
see also traditional model
public choice theory 1–12, 13, 32, 39–43, 61
public enterprise 5, 9, 15, 81–2, 94–112,
223–5, 227, 232
characteristics 97
control and accountability 95, 107–10,
239–40
definition 97
developing countries 223–5, 227, 232
future of 110–2,
hybrid nature 111
kinds of 97–9
management efficiency 105–6
management problems 95
privatization 5, 9, 15, 44, 57, 59, 82, 94–5,
99–107
reasons for establishing 95–7
public goods 41–2, 78–9, 84–5
public interest 1, 2, 5, 41
as motivation 1, 41
public management 6–8, 44–70, 75–6, 157–64,
259–82
definition 6–8
see also new public management;
managerialism
public policy 7, 8, 113–31
agenda-setting 120
and new public management 114–16, 131
and political science 114–16
and public administration 7, 116
as paradigm 114
definition 114–16
empirical methods 117–18
inductive social science 125
information role only 127
limitations 122–6
output of government 8, 115
process models 119–22
scientific model 125–6
public sector 5, 9–10, 39, 59–60, 64–5, 71–93,
149–50, 157–60, 167, 236–55, 271
accountability 2, 5, 236–55
definition 73–4
measurement of performance 5, 37–8, 45–7,
149–50, 154, 157–60, 271
role 71–93
size and scope 9–10, 39, 59–60, 70, 72,
90–3, 167
uniqueness 64–5
public service 1, 26, 47, 204, 207, 153
anonymity and neutrality 1, 26, 47, 204, 207
public utilities 79, 96, 197–8
political sensitivity 97–8
privatization 98
see also natural monopoly
purchaser and provider 44, 59
Pusey, M. 10
Putt, A. and Springer, J. 114, 117, 118, 124–5
Quade, E. 115, 119
Index 301
Rainey, H. 45, 130
Ramamurti, R. 225
Ranson, S. and Stewart, J. 9, 76
rationality 11–12, 40, 42, 60–1, 87, 124–5
rational–legal authority 21–4, 225, 272
Reagan government in US 9, 43, 72, 86, 87,
269–70
Rees, R. 95–6
reforms in public sector 20–1, 50–1, 152–7
see also new public management
regulation 74, 80–3, 88
defined 82
regulation of competition see competition
policy
Rehfuss, J. 68, 179
Reich, R. 215
re-inventing government 3, 4
responsibility see accountability
responsiveness 248–9
restructuring 13, 50
results 54–5, 70
Rhodes, R. 4
Rice, E. 227
Richardson, J. and Jordan, A. 208, 209, 210