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Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19
Following the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organisations will be reshaped in the future.
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Following the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organisations will be reshaped in the future.
This Research Handbook brings together a wealth of established and early career international scholars who offer summative and comparative analyses of jurisdictions’ pandemic responses, alongside vital in-depth studies of jurisdictional pandemic experiences. Chapters interrogate public management successes and failures in response to the pandemic, the systemic inequalities highlighted by the pandemic, how the pandemic challenged public managers and political leaders, and crucially how the pandemic challenged fundamental concepts of public management. Offering key advice as to how public management can adapt and reorient going forward, this Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the developing discussion and debate taking place within this discipline.
Exploring a broad range of key concepts in the field, this book will be an invaluable read for students, academics and researchers of public management, public administration, health care management, sociology and social policy. Providing important data relating to crisis response, this book will also be of practical benefit to public leaders and their professional teams when coordinating action in emergency situations.
This Research Handbook brings together a wealth of established and early career international scholars who offer summative and comparative analyses of jurisdictions’ pandemic responses, alongside vital in-depth studies of jurisdictional pandemic experiences. Chapters interrogate public management successes and failures in response to the pandemic, the systemic inequalities highlighted by the pandemic, how the pandemic challenged public managers and political leaders, and crucially how the pandemic challenged fundamental concepts of public management. Offering key advice as to how public management can adapt and reorient going forward, this Research Handbook is a vital contribution to the developing discussion and debate taking place within this discipline.
Exploring a broad range of key concepts in the field, this book will be an invaluable read for students, academics and researchers of public management, public administration, health care management, sociology and social policy. Providing important data relating to crisis response, this book will also be of practical benefit to public leaders and their professional teams when coordinating action in emergency situations.
Critical Acclaim
‘This Handbook draws together theory and empirical evidence to tease out important implications for understanding the role of public management in the pandemic, across a wide range of countries and public services, and with insights across a range of themes of relevance to government, public organizations, and citizens. Read it to understand this complex recent past – and also to understand how to prepare for the future. A fine collection of chapters.’
– Jean Hartley, The Open University, UK
‘This remarkable book analyzes the COVID-19 crisis through the eyes of some of the most insightful and creative public policy and public management scholars in the world. It is a “must read” – now and in the future – for anyone interested in improving our collective response to global public challenges.’
– Rosemary O'Leary, University of Kansas, US
‘A fascinating collection on the potential and limitations of public management to meet the challenges posed by COVID-19. A key message is that mainstream public management theory and practice is fatally flawed by its ongoing failure to take account of structural inequality. Happily, it offers ideas and evidence of how to do better in the future.’
– Helen Sullivan, Australian National University.
‘The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented public management challenges and exposed weaknesses that had festered for a long time. This is a timely book on the challenges and how they were addressed. Public management scholars and practitioners around the world will find the book useful.’
– M. Ramesh, National University of Singapore
– Jean Hartley, The Open University, UK
‘This remarkable book analyzes the COVID-19 crisis through the eyes of some of the most insightful and creative public policy and public management scholars in the world. It is a “must read” – now and in the future – for anyone interested in improving our collective response to global public challenges.’
– Rosemary O'Leary, University of Kansas, US
‘A fascinating collection on the potential and limitations of public management to meet the challenges posed by COVID-19. A key message is that mainstream public management theory and practice is fatally flawed by its ongoing failure to take account of structural inequality. Happily, it offers ideas and evidence of how to do better in the future.’
– Helen Sullivan, Australian National University.
‘The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented public management challenges and exposed weaknesses that had festered for a long time. This is a timely book on the challenges and how they were addressed. Public management scholars and practitioners around the world will find the book useful.’
– M. Ramesh, National University of Singapore
Contributors
Contributors include: Barbara Allen, Catherine Althaus, Rachel Ashworth, Katie Attwell, Sara Bice, Arjen Boin, Benjamin Bowles, Taco Brandsen, Nicholas Bromfield, Dawn Casey, Linda Colley, Maria Cucciniello, Tie Cui, Maria Daels, Phil Davies, Lucas de Toca, Helen Dickinson, Natalia Dopazo, Catherine Durose, Daniel Edmiston, Catherine Farrell, Mark Fenton-O’Creevy, Adam Hannah, Hayley Henderson, Menno Hoppen, Lydia Kapiriri, Naim Kapucu, Peter Matthews, Nicky Miller, Kim Moloney, Donald Moynihan, Janine O’Flynn, Stephen Osborne, Joaquín Pérez Martín, Beth Perry, Liz Richardson, Suzanne Robinson, Helen Selby-Fell, Catherine Smith, Chris Smith, Trui Steen, Paul 't Hart, Jordan Tchilingirian, Xolile C. Thani, Zeger van der Wa, Blair Williams, Iestyn Williams, Sue Williamson, Sophie Yates, Staci Zavattaro
