02123cam a22003254i 4500 ocn895730897 OCoLC ta 210514s2015 ksu b s001 0 eng 2014040570 9780700620944 (paperback) 070062094X (paperback) 9780700620937 (hardback) 0700620931 (hardback) (OCoLC)895730897 JF1525.P6 P48 2015 Peters, B. Guy. Pursuing horizontal management : the politics of public sector coordination / B. Guy Peters. Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c2015. xiii, 197 p. Studies in government and public policy Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: the coordination problem -- Barriers to coordination -- Approaches to understanding coordination -- The instruments of coordination -- Case studies in coordination -- Is coordination always the answer, and can it be? "Peters provides the most comprehensive discussion available of the problem of policy coordination in the public sector. He begins by observing that governments typically react to policy problems by embracing specialization, which tends to undermine efforts to deliver better coordinated policies. Drawing upon a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and multinational, he tackles this conundrum by focusing on the concept of horizontal management. His conceptual analysis is supplemented by four case studies of public sector coordination (Homeland Security in the U.S., child protection in the U.K., policymaking in Finland, and the European Union). Finding the appropriate balance between specialization and coordination, Peters concludes, is a knotty problem yet essential to the delivery of the most effective policies"-- Political planning Case studies. Public administration Management Case studies. Policy sciences Case studies. Studies in government and public policy lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 JF1525.P6 P48 2015 PNLIB21062612 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 2799 2799