Public Values and Public Interest by Ben Minteer
Bozeman challenges the dominance of the concept of economic individualism that drives policymaking and public management today, at the expense of consideration of the common good. Although public interest theory holds a venerable place in the larger tradition of political theory, dating back to Aristotle, since the 1950s it has generally been obscured by an emphasis on quantitative social sciences and an idealization of market values. Seeking to counterbalance both the philosophical and the more practical aspects of economic individualism, Bozeman develops the theories and concepts to show why indices of economic value are inadequate for so many instances of social choice and why public value should serve a larger role as a guide for public management. He argues that a pragmatic approach to public interest theory, an approach based on empiricism and deliberation, is not only satisfactory but likely to lead to useful outcomes. He explores, through the lens of public interest, the policy and management implications of various cases of privatization--Social Security, defense, water supplies, prisons, and local government--and of an extended case about genetically modified crops . Bozeman concludes by offering an alternative theory of public management, managing publicness, that restores the quest for fairness in the pursuit of public values as a starting point.-
Collaborative Governance Regimes
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Public Administration
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Revisiting Waldo's Administrative State
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Charitable Choice at Work
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China's Sent-Down Generation
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How We Vote
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Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector
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Public Value and Public Administration
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Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector
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Federal Service and the Constitution
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Creating Effective Rules in Public Sector Organizations
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Governing under Stress
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The Future of Public Administration around the World
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Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management
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Program Budgeting and the Performance Movement
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Implementing Innovation
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Organizational Learning at NASA
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The Federal Management Playbook
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The Greening of the U.S. Military
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Measuring the Performance of the Hollow State
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Managing within Networks
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Challenging the Performance Movement
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Managing Disasters through Public-Private Partnerships
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Collaborating to Manage
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How Management Matters
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The Responsible Contract Manager
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The Dynamics of Performance Management
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The Collaborative Public Manager
Provides such a thorough and thoughtful plea for the need of a continuous emphasis on what is public about government conduct and why; it is, as such, the first of its kindPublic Administration Review
Barry Bozeman is the Ander Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy and Regents' Professor of Public Policy at the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs and adjunct honorary professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen. He has served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies and is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Bureaucracy and Red Tape and Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System. He has received numerous awards, including the Charles Levine Award, the James Webb Award, and the Dimock Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781589011779 |
| ISBN 10 | 1589011775 |
| Title | Public Values and Public Interest |
| Author | Ben Minteer |
| Series | Public Management And Change Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Herbert A. Simon Book Award 6 (United States), Winner of Public Administration Section: Herbert A. Simon Book Award (United States)., Winner of Herbert A. Simon Book Award. |
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