The Art of the State Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management HOOD, Christopher (Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Government, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science)

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.