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Comparative Studies of Organizations in the Public Sector
series
Series editors: Geert
Bouckaert, and B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of American Government
and Chair, University of Pittsburgh, US
Organizations are the building blocks of governments. The role of organizations,
formal and informal, is most readily apparent in public bureaucracy,
but all institutions in the public sector have some organizational characteristics
that affect their performance. Therefore, if scholars want to understand
how governments work, a good place to begin their inquiry is the organizations
involved in making and delivering services. Likewise, if practitioners
want to understand how to be effective in the public sector they would
be well advised to consider examining the role of organizations and
how to make organizations more efficient. Research on Public Sector
Organizations will, as a series comprise a wide range of books based
on research concerned with organizations in the public sector. Examples
of topics that might be explored in the series are: • the autonomy
of public organizations • inter-organizational coordination •
networks and network analysis • bureaucratic politics •
policy-making in public bureaucracies • organizational change
• organizational leadership • methodology for studying organizations.
This series will aim to demonstrate the importance of linking organizational
theory and politics when studying these structures within government.
These organizations have some elements of formal organizations in any
part of society, but they also are affected very fundamentally by their
location in government.
Published books in the Comparative Studies of Organizations in the Public
Sector series
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