The Public Sector

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part 1. The Challenge: Problems as Contestable Issues -- 1. Introduction: Issues and Context / Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver -- 2. Analyzing the Public Sector: Shortcomings of Policy Science and Political Analysis / Majone, Giandomenico -- 3. Analyzing the Public Sector: The Received View in Economics and its Shortcomings / Gretschmann, Klaus -- 4. Responding to Citizens' Needs: From Bureaucratic Accountability to Individual Coproduction in the Public Sector / Wirth, Wolfgang -- Part 2. The Public Sector: Constitutional and Conceptual Problems -- 5. Development of the Public Sector: Trends and Issues / Grunow, Dieter -- 6. The Modern State: Continental Traditions / Grimm, Dieter -- 7. Constitutional Considerations with Particular Reference to Federal Systems / Ostrom, Vincent -- 8. The Blurring of the Distinction State Versus Society in the Idea and Practice of the Welfare State / Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver -- 9. The Hidden Public Sector: The 'Quangocratization' of the World? / Hood, Christopher -- 10. Measuring the Public Sector: A Contestable Issue / Gretschmann, Klaus -- Part 3. Guidance, Control, and Evaluation as Conditions for Learning -- 11. The Relationship between Guidance, Control, and Evaluation / Kaufmann, Franz-Xaver -- 12. Coordination of Administrative Controls: Institutional Challenges for Operational Tasks / Wirth, Wolfgang -- 13. Two Decades of Implementation Research: From Control to Guidance and Learning / Sabatier, Paul A. -- 14. Generating Knowledge and Refining Experience: The Task of Evaluation / Hellstern, Gerd-Michael -- 15. The Ethical Context of Bureaucracy and Performance Analysis / Gunsteren, Herman R. van -- 16. A Cybernetic View of Guidance, Control, and Evaluation in the Public Sector / Dunsire, Andrew -- 17. Concepts of Control over Public Bureaucracies: 'Comptrol' and 'Interpolate Balance' / Hood, Christopher -- Part 4. Comparing Institutional Forms of Coordination -- 18. Markets and Hierarchies: About the Dialectics of their Antagonism and Compatibility / Krüsselberg, Hans-Günter -- 19. Solidarity and Markets Reconsidered: Cum, Versus, or What? / Gretschmann, Klaus -- 20. Comparing Solidarity, Hierarchy, and Markets: Institutional Arrangements for the Coordination of Actions / Hegner, Friedhart -- 21. Votes and Vetoes / Herzberg, Roberta / Ostrom, Vincent -- 22. Professionalism and Mutual Adjustment / Majone, Giandomenico -- 23 Interorganizational Policy Coordination: Arrangements of Shared Government / Franz, Hans-Jurgen -- 24. A Method of Institutional Analysis and an Application to Multiorganizational Arrangements / Ostrom, Elinor -- 25. Interorganizational Networks and Control: A Critical Conclusion / Rhodes, R. A. W. -- List of Contributors -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter