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Parliamentary Affairs 2008 61(4):709-712; doi:10.1093/pa/gsn027
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Governance and the Public Sector

John Fenwick

Public Management and the Problem of Governance
R. Hodges, (ed.), Governance and the Public Sector, Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy Series, Elgar Reference Collection, 624 pages, ISBN 184542302X, 2005, £150.

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This rather weighty reference book consists of reprinted journal articles and selected chapters from the wide field of public sector governance. The editor of this volume, Ron Hodges, recognises in his introduction that the ‘broad scope of the literature on public sector governance exists as both a challenge and an opportunity to researchers’. The broad nature of this material must also have been a distinctly mixed blessing for those with the task of making editorial decisions. The strength of this topic area is that the ideas, research and subject matter are spread across several distinct disciplines, making it a rich and promising area for scholars to pursue further work. The weakness is that the topic of governance can be defined too broadly, meaning many things to different researchers. Thus any collection may lack focus, and may well date rapidly. Assembling a collection of previously published material in this area, while . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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