PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: AS A DESIGN-ORIENTED PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE
Book ID/图书代码： 04289519C00022
English Summary/英文概要： What, fundamentally, is public management? This question is rarely answered clearly and confidently, whether by students of public management or academics in the field. This book answers this question, as its readers come to know why and how public management is a design-oriented professional discipline. The argument of the book is grounded in Herbert Simon’s ideas about design-oriented professional disciplines. However, Michael Barzelay’s argument runs counter to the idea that public management is a design science. It envisions the discipline as a professional practice that requires the thoughtful and skilful use of purposive theories of public organizations, along with reverse-engineered design-precedents, in problem-solving for public programs and organizations. How professional knowledge about public management is to be expanded through research and analytical synthesis is therefore a major thrust of the book’s overall argument. Michael Barzelay develops these arguments in a unique way, including guiding the reader through a fictional "Public Management Gallery" featuring key contributions to purposive theorizing about public management as a professional practice. The book is an essential resource for those wishing to strengthen the professional practice of public management - and the discipline - through education and research immediately and for years to come.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 究竟什么才是公共管理？无论是公共管理专业的学生还是该领域的学者，都很少能清楚而自信地回答这个问题。本书回答了这个问题，它将帮助读者理解为什么说公共管理是一个设计导向的专业学科以及它是如何形成的。本书的论点是基于Herbert Simon关于设计导向的专业学科的观点的。Michael Barzelay的观点与公共管理是一门设计科学的观点背道而驰。它将该学科设想为一种专业实践，要求在解决公共项目和组织的问题时，对公共组织的目的性理论以及逆向工程设计先例进行深思熟虑而娴熟的运用。因此，如何通过研究和分析综合来扩展公共管理的专业知识是本书总体论点的主要推动力。Michael Barzelay以一种独特的方式展开论述了这些论点，包括通过一个虚构的“公共管理图库”来引导读者。本书对那些希望通过当前及今后多年的教育和研究来加强公共管理专业实践及学科理解的读者来说，是必不可少的资源。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“通过将问题解决视为将现有条件转换为首选条件的设计过程，本书致力于为公共管理奠定知识基础，提出公共管理的实践可以通过以设计为导向的专业知识加以改进。本书延伸了Simon-Bardach的传统理论，以生动的方式表达其观点，对公共管理的研究和教学做出了全新的贡献。”——Yijia Jing，中国复旦大学
“Michael Barzelay是我们所有人都需要的导师。我们都希望看到并参与使作为实体的公共管理成为为每个人创造更美好未来的一部分。最好的导师会把手放在你的肩上，告诉你应该做什么，怎么做，以及为什么做。Michael的书就是那只手，它指明了前进的方向。”——John M. Bryson，明尼苏达大学
‘By treating problem-solving as designing processes that convert existing to preferred conditions, this book takes up an ambition to set an intellectual foundation for public management whose practices can be improved by design-oriented professional knowledge. The book extends the Simon-Bardach traditions but presents ideas in vivid ways, making itself a brand new contribution to research and pedagogy in public management.’ -- Yijia Jing, Fudan University, China
‘Michael Barzelay is the mentor needed by all of us interested in seeing – and designing – how public management as an enterprise can be part of creating a better future for everyone. The best mentors put their hand on your shoulder and point to what you ought to be doing, how, and why. Michael’s book is that hand and it shows the way forward.’ -- John M. Bryson, University of Minnesota, US
‘Michael Barzelay offers a compelling account of the development of what he aptly and creatively describes as a “design-oriented, professional discipline” – the field of public management. In doing so, he helps all those laboring in this particular vineyard to understand more precisely what they are about, and the standards they need to meet if they are to be both intellectually responsible and useful to those practicing within this important professional domain. I never expected to have my own work so thoughtfully and critically reviewed, but emerged from this experience heartened and invigorated by the continuing challenge of developing the field further with Michael as our guide.’ -- Mark H. Moore, Harvard University, US
About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Barzelay，英国伦敦政治经济学院管理系Michael Barzelay, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
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