The art of the state : culture, rhetoric, and public management / Christopher Hood.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-257) and index.

List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Public Management: Seven Propositions -- 1. Public Management: Three Conventional Assumptions -- 2. What This Book Argues -- 3. Grid/Group Cultural Theory and Public Management -- 4. Putting Cultural Theory to Work in Analysing Public Management -- 5. Combining Cultural and Historical Perspectives -- 6. Modernity and Convergence in Cultural and Historical Perspective -- 7. The Stretchability and Centrality of the Cultural-Theory Frame -- 8. The Plan of the Book -- 2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management -- 1. Responses to Public-Management Disasters -- 2. Four Types of Failure and Collapse -- 3. Private Gain from Public Office -- 4. Fiascos Resulting from Excessive Trust in Authority and Expertise -- 5. Unresolved Conflict and Internecine Strife -- 6. Apathy and Inertia: Lack of Planning, Initiative, and Foresight -- 7. Accounting for Failure in Public Management -- 3. Control and Regulation in Public Management -- 1. 'Bossism': Oversight and Review as an Approach to Control -- 2. 'Choicism': Control by Competition -- 3. 'Groupism': Control by Mutuality -- 4. 'Chancism': Control by Contrived Randomness -- 5. Ringing the Changes: Hybrids, Variants, and Alternatives -- 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way -- 1. What Hierarchists Believe -- 2. 'The Daddy of them All': Confucian Public Management -- 3. The European State-Builders: Cameralism and 'Policey Science' -- 4. Progressivism and Fabianism: 'Servants of the New Reorganization' -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way -- 1. What Individualists Believe About Public Management -- 2. Individualist Approaches, Old and New -- 3. Recurring Themes in Individualist Public Management -- 4. Conclusion -- 6. Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way -- 1. What Egalitarians Believe -- 2. The Managerial Critique of Egalitarianism -- 3. Varieties of Egalitarianism -- 4. Conclusion -- 7. Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way? -- 1. Beyond Markets, Hierarchies, and Solidarity: A Fatalist World of Public Management? -- 2. Fatalism as a Greek Chorus in Public Management -- 3. Fatalism as a Recipe for Good Public Management: Lotteries as an Organizational Way of Life -- 4. Conclusion -- 8. Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture -- 1. Do Ideas Develop Cumulatively in Public Management? -- 2. The Rhetorical Dimension of Public Management -- 3. Rhetoric and Culture in Public Management -- 4. Better than the Devil You Know? Reaction and Change in Public Management -- 5. Conclusion -- 9. Contemporary Public Management: A New Global Paradigm? -- 1. Modern, Global, Inevitable? The Claim of a New Paradigm in Public Management -- 2. Public-Management Modernization as Deep Change -- 3. Public-Management Modernization as Irreversible Change -- 4. Public-Management Modernization as Convergent Change -- 5. Public-Management Modernization as Beneficent Change -- 6. Modernization - or 'Fatal Remedies'? -- 7. Conclusion -- 10. Taking Stock: The State of the Art of the State -- 1. Public Management and Cultural Theory: Just Another Superficial Fad? -- 2. The 'Nursery Toys' Objection: Too Simple for Sophisticated Analysis? -- 3. The 'Soft Science' Objection: A Limited and Ambiguous Theory? -- 4. The 'Wrong Tool' Objection: Is Cultural Theory Relevant for the What-to-Do Questions of Management? -- 5. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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