Overview
- Explores how learning processes can make public management both effective and democratic in a pragmatic way
- Enriches the discussion on public management and governance on both a practical and theoretical level
- Offers an interpretive perspective on how social practices in public management resolve institutional conflicts
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Through a range of well-sourced case studies, this book demonstrates how institutions can manage difficult situations by not only resolving the conflict but addressing the underlying problem. It uses both theoretical and practical approaches to observe the micro foundations of political behavior and its institutional underpinnings, and will be a valuable resource for public administration researchers, practitioners, and graduate students seeking empirical studies of learning processes in the public sphere.
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Reviews
“This important book focusses on the role of learning in governance research and practice and analyses its implications for metagovernance and management. It develops a practice oriented research framework and applies it in a number of interesting case studies of conflictual governance processes.” (Eva Sørensen, Roskilde University, Denmark)
“This practice-based analysis explores contingencies of collaborative learning in the face bureaucratic resistance, surprise and fear, complexity and public disputes. Cogently and clearly argued, and reframing double loop learning as more deliberatively interactive and institutionally entrepreneurial practices of governance, this book promises to advance public administration theory and practice.” (John Forester, Cornell University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marta Strumińska-Kutra is a sociologist at VID Specialized University, Norway and Kozminski University, Poland. Her areas of expertise include governance, public disputes, corporate social responsibility, public administration, sustainable innovation, and the methodology of critical and participatory research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratizing Public Management
Book Subtitle: Towards Practice-Based Theory
Authors: Marta Struminska-Kutra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74591-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74590-9Published: 03 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09030-2Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74591-6Published: 23 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 234
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Administration, Corporate Governance, Public Policy