Advancing Public Management : New Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice

In this volume, leading scholars address three key topics: the nature and impact of public managment; creative methods for public managment research, reform, reinvention, innovation, and change; and new models and frameworks for understanding and improving public management.

Jeffrey L. Brudney is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Doctor of Public Administration program at the University of Georgia Jeff Gill is Assistant Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University Mark T. Green is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Denver Thomas H. Hammond is Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University Patricia W. Ingraham is Professor of Public Administration and Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also Director of the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute Lawrence R. Jones is Wagner Professor of Public Management, Department of Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California Jocelyn M. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas Anne M. Khademian is an independent author and researcher living in Michigan. She was an associate professor of political science and public policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting associate professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan Gordon Kingsley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology Amy E. Kneedler is Instructor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also a senior research associate at the Alan K. Campbell Public Affairs Institute Jack H. Knott is Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Suzanne Leland is a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, Department of Public Administration. She is a faculty member at Kansas State University Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. is the Sydney Stein, Jr., Professor of Public Management at the University of Chicago Steven Maynard-Moody is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Administration at the University of Kansas Eugene B. McGregor is Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Kenneth J. Meier is Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at Texas AandM University Julia Melkers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies at Georgia State University Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Senior Research Associate in the Fanning Institute of Leadership and Community Development at the University of Georgia Hal G. Rainey is Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia Nancy C. Roberts is a Professor of Strategic Management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California Barbara S. Romzek is a Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas Fred Thompson is the Grace and Elmer Goudy Professor of Public Management at the Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University James R. Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago George A. Waller is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Wisconson-Milwaukee