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