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Growing the productivity of government services
Productivity is essentially the ratio of an organization's outputs divided by its inputs. For many years it was treated as always being static in government agencies. In fact productivity in government services should be rising rapidly as a result of digital changes and new management approaches, and it has done so in some agencies. However, Dunleavy and Carrera show for the first time how complex are the factors affecting productivity growth in government organizations - especially management practices, use of IT, organizational culture, strategic mis-decisions and political and policy churn.
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Digital Era Governance
Government information systems are big business (costing over 1% of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them — for instance, the United Kingdom alone commits £14 billion a year to public sector information technology (IT) operations. Yet governments do not generally develop or run their own systems, instead relying on private sector computer services providers to run large, long-run contracts to provide IT. Some of the biggest companies in the world (IBM, EDS, Lockheed Martin, etc.) have made this a core market. This book shows how governments in some countries (the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands) have maintained much more effective policies than others (in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia). It shows how public managers need to retain and develop their own IT expertise and to carefully maintain well-contested markets if they are to deliver value for money in their dealings with the very powerful global IT industry. This book describes how a critical aspect of the modern state is managed, or in some cases mismanaged.
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Theories of the state : the politics of liberal democracy
Discusses Pluralist, New Right, Elitist, Marxist and Neo-pluralist theories. Provides summary of intellectual origins, methodology and key strengths and weaknesses with examples from United States, Western Europe, etc.
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The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web
Widespread use of the Internet and the Web has transformed the public management quasi-paradigm in advanced industrial countries. The toolkit for public management reform has shifted away from a new public management (NPM) approach stressing fragmentation, competition and incentivization and towards a digital-era governance (DEG) one, focusing on reintegrating services, providing holistic services for citizens and implementing thoroughgoing digital changes in administration. We review the current status of NPM and DEG approaches, showing how the development of the social Web has already helped trigger a second wave of DEG2 changes. Web science and organizational studies are converging swiftly in public management and public services, opening up an extensive agenda for future redesign of state organization and interventions. So far, DEG changes have survived austerity pressures well, whereas key NPM elements have been rolled back.
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نظريات الدولة الديمقراطية
كتاب نظريات الدولة الديمقراطية تأليف جون س درايزك، باتريك دنلفي يتناول هذا الكتاب الكثير من القضايا التي تساعدنا في التعرف على ماهية الدولة الديمقراطية الليبرالية، وكيف ينبغي أن تعمل الدولة الديمقراطية الليبرالية، كما يقوم بعمل مسح شامل للأوضاع والأنظمة المختلفة لتنظيم شئون الدولة، وأكثر الانتقادات المعاصرة البارزة للدولة الديمقراطية الليبرالية.
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New Public Management Is Dead—Long Live Digital-Era Governance
The “new public management” (NPM) wave in public sector organizational change was founded on themes of disaggregation, competition, and incentivization. Although its effects are still working through in countries new to NPM, this wave has now largely stalled or been reversed in some key “leading-edge” countries. This ebbing chiefly reflects the cumulation of adverse indirect effects on citizens' capacities for solving social problems because NPM has radically increased institutional and policy complexity. The character of the post-NPM regime is currently being formed. We set out the case that a range of connected and information technology–centered changes will be critical for the current and next wave of change, and we focus on themes of reintegration, needs-based holism, and digitization changes. The overall movement incorporating these new shifts is toward “digital-era governance” (DEG), which involves reintegrating functions into the governmental sphere, adopting holistic and needs-oriented structures, and progressing digitalization of administrative processes. DEG offers a perhaps unique opportunity to create self-sustaining change, in a broad range of closely connected technological, organizational, cultural, and social effects. But there are alternative scenarios as to how far DEG will be recognized as a coherent phenomenon and implemented successfully.
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FROM OLD PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION TO NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
Patrick Dunleavy and Christopher Hood look at the now familiar idea of New Public Management (NPM) and show that it has proved to be a fairly durable and consistent agenda. The major criticisms of NPM are reviewed and future challenges are discussed.
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The second wave of digital-era governance: a quasi-paradigm for government on the Web
Widespread use of the Internet and the Web has transformed the public management 'quasi-paradigm' in advanced industrial countries. The toolkit for public management reform has shifted away from a 'new public management' (NPM) approach stressing fragmentation, competition and incentivization and towards a 'digital-era governance' (DEG) one, focusing on reintegrating services, providing holistic services for citizens and implementing thoroughgoing digital changes in administration. We review the current status of NPM and DEG approaches, showing how the development of the social Web has already helped trigger a 'second wave' of DEG2 changes. Web science and organizational studies are converging swiftly in public management and public services, opening up an extensive agenda for future redesign of state organization and interventions. So far, DEG changes have survived austerity pressures well, whereas key NPM elements have been rolled back.
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PUBLIC SECTOR PRODUCTIVITY
This chapter will discuss four aspects of productivity in the public sector. First, why do we have so little public sector productivity information? After all, productivity has been an important concept in the private sector for approximately 80 years, and has been much talked about since the early 1970s when President Nixon set up a Productivity Council in the US. However, what we have known about it up until now has been relatively restricted.
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