Franz-Xaver Kaufmann 
The Public Sector [PDF ebook] 
Challenge for Coordination and Learning

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues — 1. Introduction: Issues and Context — 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis — 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings — 4. Responding to Citizens’ Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector — Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems — 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues — 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions — 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems — 8. The Blurring of the Distinction “State Versus Society” in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State — 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The ‘Quangocratization’ of the World? — 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue — Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning — 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation — 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks — 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning — 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation — 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis — 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector — 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: ‘Comptrol’ and ‘Interpolate Balance’ — Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination — 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility — 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? — 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions — 21. Votes and Vetoes — 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment — 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government — 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements — 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion — List of Contributors — Index of Authors — Index of Subjects — Backmatter