Beyond the new public governance
Beyond the new public governance
I provide a brief history of the shift from traditional public administration to new public management to the new public governance. I identify three waves of new public governance - network governance, metagovernance, and decentred governance. This chapter describes the first two waves briefly before focusing on decentred governance. I argue for a bottom-up approach to the study of governance that focuses on local knowledge, and uses storytelling as its main method for collecting data. As every approach to the study of governance has its limits, the chapter concludes by discussing the usefulness of local knowledge to central policy makers.
governance, policy networks, decentred analysis, storytelling, local knowledge
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Rhodes, R. A. W.
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June 2021
Rhodes, R. A. W.
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Rhodes, R. A. W.
(2021)
Beyond the new public governance.
In,
Podger, Andrew and Althaus, Catherine
(eds.)
Politics, Policy and Public Administration in Theory and Practice : Essays in Honour of Professor John Wanna.
Canberra.
ANU Press, .
(doi:10.22459/PPPATP.2021).
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I provide a brief history of the shift from traditional public administration to new public management to the new public governance. I identify three waves of new public governance - network governance, metagovernance, and decentred governance. This chapter describes the first two waves briefly before focusing on decentred governance. I argue for a bottom-up approach to the study of governance that focuses on local knowledge, and uses storytelling as its main method for collecting data. As every approach to the study of governance has its limits, the chapter concludes by discussing the usefulness of local knowledge to central policy makers.
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Published date: June 2021
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governance, policy networks, decentred analysis, storytelling, local knowledge
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