The Art of Public Strategy

Mobilizing Power and Knowledge for the Common Good
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-959345-3
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

The strategies adopted by our governments and public officials can lead to significant change in citizens' lives - smoking bans, carbon markets, even the reunification of a country like Germany. Equally, strategic failure can result in highly visible disasters, such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, people, technologies, and public commitment can be mobilized to achieve important goals. It considers the common mistakes made, and how these can be avoided.

Written by Geoff Mulgan, a former head of policy for the UK prime minister, and advisor to governments round the world, it is packed with examples and shaped by the author's practical experience. The author's central point is that we as citizens deserve governments that pay more attention to the long-term, rather than to tomorrow's opinion poll or newspaper editorial. The evidence shows that those governments that have learned how to be strategic have helped to make their citizens healthier,

richer and happier.

The book is essential reading for anyone involved in running public organizations - from hospitals and schools to national government departments and local councils - but also for anyone interested in how government really works.

Zielgruppe

Academics, researchers, and students of Public Management, Political Science, and Strategy; Public sector managers, government officials, and policy makers; Academics and professionals taking MPAs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulgan, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungsorganisation und -politik, Verwaltungslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Öffentlicher Dienst, Öffentlicher Sektor
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: From Tangled Knots to Virtuous Circles
Part I
2: What is Public Strategy?
3: Public Action: The Dynamics of Supply and Demand
4: A Framework for Adaptive Strategy
Part II
5: Locating Strategy: Structures, Processes, and Cultures
6: Knowledge: How Can Governments Know Enough to Govern?
7: Implementation: Moving from Words to Action
8: Positive Risks: Taking Innovation in the Public Sector Seriously
9: Negative Risks: Strategies for Resilience
10: Joined-up Government
11: Changing Minds and Behaviour
12: Winning (and Losing) Public Trust
13: Metrics: Measuring Social and Public Value
14: Persistent Leadership
Part III
15: Separating the Urgent and the Important: Strategy as a Public Good

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Mulgan CBE is director of the Young Foundation, an organization specialising in social innovation that in the past helped give birth to organizations such as the Open University and Which. He has held various roles in government in the UK, including director of the government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. He has lectured and advised governments in countries all over the world, from China and the USA to Australia and India.
He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL, and Melbourne University. His most recent book is Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government (Allen Lane, 2006). He is on the editorial board of Political Quarterly; a trustee of the Work Foundation and the Design Council; chair of Involve and of
the Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland.