The art of the state : culture,rhetoric,and public management - HOOD (Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1998)
This book looks at public management from a rather different perspective. It aim to use grid/group cultural theory to get an analytic purchase on a number of themes in public management, including ehe exploration of underlying patterns of control and regulation, the disaggregation of forms of persuasive argument about management, and the discussion of types of failure in public management.
Keywords: Public administration