Strategies for governing : reinventing public administration for a dangerous century / Alasdair Roberts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : time for a new approach -- Summary of propositions -- Acknowledging the state -- States and societies -- Leaders and their goals -- Strategies for governing -- Factors and forces -- Laws, organizations, programs, and practices -- Aspects of institutional stewardship -- Challenges in strategy-making -- The struggle for mastery -- Danger, strategic instability, and realism -- Time and progress -- Unexceptionalism -- Efficiency or extravagance -- Tight or loose control -- Separation or connection -- Present or future -- Commitment or equivocation -- Planning or improvisation -- Research -- Teaching -- Practice -- Conclusion : grand challenges.

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research, teaching, and practice. Leaders of states, Roberts writes, are constantly reinventing strategies for governing. Experts in public administration must give advice on the design as well as execution of strategies that effective, robust, and principled. Strategies for Governing challenges us to reinvigorate public administration and public management, preparing the fields for the challenges of the twenty-first century. Provided by publisher.

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