The Art of the State —— Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management

----- 国家的艺术：文化，修辞和公共管理

ISBN: 9780198297659 出版年：2003 页码：276 Hood, Christopher Clarendon Press

This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the 'modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory and likely to remain so.