Public Administration in Transition: Theory - Practice - Methodology

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | PART I. Post modern public administration - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | Chapter 2. Deliberative Public Administration: The Discourse Alternative to Neo-Tribalism in Multicultural Societies - By Dragan Stanisevski and Hugh T. Miller | Chapter 3. The Argumentative Turn in Public Policy: Deliberation as Postpositivist Practice - By Frank Fischer | Chapter 4. Postmodern Public Administration: Liberal Promise, or Subtle Control? - By Jacob Torfing | Chapter 5. Public administration as Metagovernance - By Eva Sorensen | PART II. Neo-institutionalism - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | Chapter 6. Institutions and Governance - By B. Guy Peters | Chapter 7. Towards a more dynamic policy analysis - By Thorsten Flugt and Gunnar Gjelstrup | Chapter 8. Public Administration Theory and Public Administration Change - By Lennart Lundquist | Chapter 9. The Bureaucratic Actor in Late Modernity: Pragmatic or Ambiguous? - By Lotte Jensen | PART III. Fragmented Local Governance - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | Chapter 10. Role diversity in the management of local service institutions - By Karina Sehested | Chapter 11. Framing Network Style Interactions in Local Governance: Three Narratives - By Gary S. Marshall, with Eric Buske | Chapter 12. Community Networks and Power in Los Angeles: Implementation of Neighbourhood Governance Reform - By Juliet Ann Musso | Chapter 13. Governance as Vital Interaction Dealing With Ambiguity in Interactive Decision-Making - By Pieter Tops and Frank Hendriks | PART IV. Method and methodology: pragmatism, interactive research and narratives - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | Chapter 14. Pragmatist Philosophy and Interactive Research - By Chris Ansell | Chapter 15. Interaction Research - By Sandra Kensen | Chapter 16. Constructing narrative health policies - By Anne Reff Pedersen | Chapter 17. Conclusion: Public administration theory and practice in transition - By Gunnar Gjelstrup and Eva Sorensen | Appendix on Peter Bogason's Academic Work - By Thorsten Flugt

Review :
Institutional theorists from all approaches will find much to read and think about in this excellent festschrift in honor of an eminent institutional theorist and researcher - Peter Bogason. Bogason's emphasis in his productive career on identifying the structure of a problem in order to examine the governance process related to that problem is illustrated repeatedly with the outstanding chapters in this volume. The intellectual move from the study of government to the study of governance has taken several decades but Bogason and his colleagues have pushed this transition along successfully. Their successes are illustrated well in this important book." Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington.