"Context in Public Policy and Management: The Missing Link?" ed. by Christopher Pollitt

This book will prove insightful to academics, as well as to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in government, public policy, public management, public administration and political science.

Contents
Contributors
Preface: Context - a missing link?
Acknowledgements
PART I Framing and understanding
1. Context in the context - missing the missing links in the field of public administration
2. Contexts: forms of agency and action
3. Constituting context?
4. The intransigent context: glimpses at the history of a problem
5. Three visions of context as history
6. Numbers in context: applying Frege's principles to public administration
PART II Putting context into theory (and theory into context)
7. Institutions in context, and as context
8. Can cultural theory give us a handle on the difference context makes to management by numbers?
9. Context, theory and rationality: an uneasy relationship?
10. Contexts and administrative reforms: a transformative approach
11. Context in public policy: implications of complexity theory
12. The service-dominant context of public services: a suitable case for treatment?
13. Explaining contextual influences on the dynamics of public management reforms: reflections on some ways forward
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Part III Empirical applications
14. What we know so far and how to proceed: contextual variables in NPM reform research
15. Context in governance networks: complex interactions between macro, meso and micro. A theoretical exploration and some empirical evidence on the impact of context factors in Taiwan, Spain and the Netherlands
16. Seeing context where there's no "there" there: the EU/USA financial crises and the missing state
17. The context of public administration from a neo-institutionalist point of view: an analysis with Finland as the case
18. The uses and abuses of historical context: a case study in the 'mutualisation' of public services
19. Context and accountability: factors shaping performance audit
20. The role and significance of context in comparing country systems
21. Hospitals and the dynamics of multiple contexts
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PART IV Reflections
22. Context: what kind of missing link?
Index

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