Description
The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and actions. They also differ in how they build the effective coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and actions during implementation, and how to build competence and knowledge to sustain implementation.
This book presents the strategic foundations for government’s role in fostering and adapting to societal transformation in a volatile world. It shifts the focus of the discipline from an overtly retrospective analysis to a prospective analysis, incorporating the role of foresight techniques and instruments. Above all, it stimulates debate about the practical implications of governance as an emergent future-oriented framework of public management.
This challenging book aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion between academics and practitioners, and encourage advanced students to take a new perspective on Public Management during these volatile times.
Table of Contents
Preface: Overview and Aims Part I: Introduction: Overview and Aims 2. Public Management for Volatile Times: Towards Deliberative, Collaborative, and Adaptive Policy Governance Part II: Developing Prospective in Public Management 3. Foresight: The Way Out of the Crisis? 4. Strategic Management in Turbulent Environments: Re-inventing Regional Economic Hubs in Canada 5. Constructing Public Management Futures During Fiscal Stress Part III: Collaboration and Conflict 6. Public Management of Sustainable Energy Development: A Comparative Analysis of Policies in Italy, Denmark, Canada, and the United States 7. Managing Services and Voicing Values: The Water Sector in Italy 8. A Collaboration-Conflict Contradiction in Public Management: Current State and Future Developments Part IV: Deliberation and Trust 9. Citizen Deliberation in Public Management: Recognizing Its Value, Overcoming its Challenges 10. Inequality, Government Performance and Trust in Public Managers 11. The Challenge of Trust in 21st Century Public Management Part V Conclusions 12. Can Prospective in Public Management Succeed? 13. Postscript: Concluding Observations and Directions for Further Research
