Public Management and Public Policy

1. Public Management and Public Policy Making the Linkages

2. What is Management Managing? Organizations People Money POLICY

3. Public Management or Administration has Tended to Ignore Linkage Classical Management (POSDCORB) Rationalist Reforms (MBO, etc.), albeit less so NPM “Governance”

4. One Size Fits All? Tendency to Pick One Version Without Concern for Tasks Management Styles as Ideology Perhaps Especially Significant for Transitional Regimes

5. The Three Styles Traditional NPM Governance Most Emphasis Has been on NPM

6. And Now Policy Three Ways to Understand Policy 1—Functions of Government 2—Policy Problems 3—Policy Instruments

7. Functions of Government Richard Rose Defining Functions Economic Functions Social Functions Add Others Such as Environment

8. Make the Linkage Defining—Traditional? Economic—NPM Social—Governance Not Quite that Easy, but….

9. Types of Problems Usually Use Nominal Titles, but Huge Internal Variance Better to Think About Analytic Categories Tend to Make Linkages with Administrative Styles Design Science

10. Examples Divisibility Scale Time Frame Monetization Interdependencies

11. Wicked Problems as Special Case Old Term Often Politically Constructed Increasingly Important in Contemporary Politics

12. Characteristics Definition Difficult Complex Causation and Multiple Interdependencies No Clear Solution Unstable

13. Links to Management Need for Adaptability Need to Involve Multiple Actors Need to Be Experimental

14. Policy Instruments The Mechanisms for Implementation But Need to be Managed Again, Think about Characteristics

15. Examples of Instruments Direct Provision Regulation Grants Tax Expenditures Contracts Information

16. Characteristics Directness Capital vs. Labor Intensity Universal vs Contingent Coercion v. Information Level of Coordination

17. Summary Few Hard and Fast Answers More a Plea to Think Carefully And a Plea to Think of Policy and Administration as Design Sciences