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Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
No full textWhile public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that public management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in public management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of public management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum development and disciplinary identity
Book Review: The New Public Management by Michael Barzelay
No full textMichael Barzelay (London School of Economics and Political Science) gained considerable scholarly attention for his book Breaking Through Bureaucracy (1992). His latest book began as an invited lecture delivered in 1997 in tribute to the late Aaron Wildavsky at the invitation of the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) at the University of California, Berkeley. GSPP hosts the Wildavsky Forum annually and Barzelay’s lecture was the third in this series
La nueva gestión pública: un acercamiento a la investigación y al debate de las politicas
No full textBarzelay concentra y analiza la investigación reciente sobre la llamada nueva gestión pública (concepto que engloba las reformas recientes en el trabajo burocrático del Reino Unido, Australia y Nueva Zelanda), en particular sobre las políticas que rigen el servicio público. El autor examina las políticas de gestión pública en distintos países y propone una metodología para su análisis crítico
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in government
No full textThis book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notions as central control, economy and efficiency, and rigid adherence to rules. Rarely questioned, the bureaucratic paradigm leads competent and faithful public servants - as well as politicians - unwittingly to impair government's ability to serve citizens by weakening, misplacing, and misdirecting accountability.How can this system be changed? Drawing on research sponsored by the Ford Foundation/Harvard University program on Innovations in State and Local Government, this book tells the story of how public officials in one state, Minnesota, cast off the conceptual blinders of the bureaucratic paradigm and experimented with ideas such as customer service, empowering front-line employees to resolve problems, and selectively introducing market forces within government. The author highlights the arguments government executives made for the changes they proposed, traces the way these changes were implemented, and summarizes the impressive results. This approach provides would-be bureaucracy busters with a powerful method for dramatically improving the way government manages the public's business.Generalizing from the Minnesota experience and from similar efforts nationwide, the book proposes a new paradigm that will reframe the perennial debate on public management. With its carefully analyzed ideas, real-life examples, and closely reasoned practical advice, Breaking Through Bureaucracy is indispensable to public managers and students of public policy and administration
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Atravesando la burocracia: una nueva perspectica de la administracion publica
No full textEsta obra contradice el pensamiento tradicional según el cual los burócratas constituyen un impedimento para que el sistema político pueda cambiar. Para Barzelay, la causa del deficiente desempeño gubernamental se funda en la negativa y constante influencia del paradigma burocrático que se caracteriza por la centralización del control y de la economía y por el apego intransigente a todas las reglas. En este sentido los autores sugieren que se lleve a cabo una reforma administrativa para contrarrestar la creatividad burocrática que tan sólo fomenta la arbitrariedad y la corrupción
Una guía práctica para la elaboración de estudios de caso sobre buenas prácticas en gerencia social
No full textEsta guía se enmarca en la iniciativa que el INDES viene desarrollando desde el año 2003, la cual está orientada a la promoción del estudio de buenas prácticas en gerencia social en la región. Desde el año 2003 el INDES ofrece el Taller de Elaboración de Estudio de Casos, como un espacio de formación en la metodología de este tipo de estudios abierto a investigadores de la región. El taller presenta a investigadores latinoamericanos avances teóricos y metodológicos referidos al estudio de las prácticas de gerencia social, tomando como referencia central el diseño metodológico desarrollado por Michael Barzelay, profesor de Gerencia Pública del Interdisciplinary Institute of Management de London School of Economics and Political Science.
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
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