Gerencia pública y burocracia

Gerencia pública y burocracia
Author: Diego Escobar Álvarez
Publisher: Universidad del Valle
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2019-03-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9587659961

El libro está estructurado en tres capítulos. En el primero, dado que el sector público y sus organizaciones son el objeto principal del trabajo de la Gerencia Pública, se hace un abordaje de variables estructurantes de las organizaciones públicas, más allá de su ABC: la conjunción de los dominios administrativos y políticos; el enfoque de sistemas; el concepto emergente de valor público y la cultura organizacional, sin ánimo de exhaustividad, pero con el propósito de apalancar su comprensión, incluso para iniciados en el tema. En el segundo, se referencian los tres modelos de Estado Moderno reconocidos: el Estado de Derecho o Liberal, el Estado Intervencionista o de Bienestar y el Estado Neo-Liberal, señalando hitos históricos que marcan su emergencia y su época. Para cada uno se analiza el modelo administrativo dominante: la burocracia, la tecnoburocracia y la gerencia pública, respectivamente. El tercero se dedica a la Gerencia Pública caracterizando las dos corrientes dominantes: el New Public Management-NPM, de origen anglosajón, con pretensiones universales, agenciado por la OCDE, de carácter postburocrático, con propuestas predominantemente administrativas, radicalmente contestatario del modelo burocrático weberiano.El otro modelo, la Nueva Gestión/Gerencia Pública-NGP, de alcance latinoamericano, agenciado por el CLAD, de talante neoburocrático, porque propone desarrollar un atributo axial del modelo burocrático: la profesionalización de la función pública, nunca desarrollada a cabalidad en ningún país de América Latina. Además, contempla la compleja introducción de variables políticas e institucionales, tampoco resueltas en los países de nuestro subcontinente, aspectos que constituyen su principal déficit estructural.

State and Market in Higher Education Reforms

State and Market in Higher Education Reforms
Author: Hans G. Schuetze
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2012-09-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 946091800X

Universities have never been static. Even so, it is fair to say they have experienced a most radical transformation in the past twenty years. During this period, the role and responsibility of the state generally have been broadly limited while allowing ‘market forces’--private ownership and control--more influence. But even where the state is still the main provider or funder, it relies increasingly on ‘market mechanisms’, for example contractual relations between state and institutions, competition among providers for resources, and external assessment of ‘outputs’ which means the results or impact of what universities do, in particular teaching and research. The new terminology speaks of price and competition, inputs and outputs, resources, cost and benefits, demand and supply, provider and customer, consumers and investors, quality control and accountability. Education, and post-secondary education especially are increasingly seen as matters for markets. Formal post-secondary education becomes a service, commercialized and traded across national borders. This volume on changing relationship between state and market, contains, besides an introductory analytic overview of the issues, accounts from different countries, regions, and thematic perspectives. Chapter authors describe and analyze government reforms and other developments that have directly or indirectly affected this relationship. Although the geographical focus is on North America, especially Mexico, South East Asia and Europe, the phenomenon is not limited to these regions and countries but worldwide.

Governing the Metropolis

Governing the Metropolis
Author: Eduardo Rojas
Publisher: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

The Political Economy of War and Peace

The Political Economy of War and Peace
Author: Murray Wolfson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461549612

cancer n. any malignant tumor . . . Metastasis may occur via the bloodstream or the lymphatic channels or across body cavities . . . setting up secondary tumors . . . Each individual primary tumor has its own pattern . . . There are probably many causative factors . . . Treatment. . . depends on the type of tumor, the site of the primary tumor and the extent of the spread. (Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary 1996, 97) Let us begin by stating the obvious. Acts of organized violence are not necessarily of human nature, but they are endogenous events arising within the an intrinsic part evolution of complex systems of social interaction. To be sure, all wars have features in common - people are killed and property is destroyed - but in their origin wars are likely to be at least as different as the social structures from which they arise. Consequently, it is unlikely that there can be a simple theory of the causes of war or the maintenance of peace. The fact that wars are historical events need not discourage us. On the contrary, we should focus our understanding of the dimensions of each conflict, or classes of conflict, on the conjuncture of causes at hand. It follows that the study of conflict must be an interdisciplinary one. It is or a penchant for eclecticism that leads to that conclusion, but the not humility multi-dimensionality of war itself.

Business Solutions for the Global Poor

Business Solutions for the Global Poor
Author: V. Kashturi Rangan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2007-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787988545

Based on research presented at The Harvard Business School’s first-ever conference on business approaches to poverty alleviation, Business Solutions for the Global Poor brings together perspectives from leading academics and corporate, non-profit and public sector managers. The contributors draw on practical and dynamic how-to insights from leading BOP ventures from more than twenty countries world-wide. This important volume reflects poverty’s multi-faceted nature and a broad range of actors—multinational and local businesses, entrepreneurs, civil society organizations and governments—that play a role in its alleviation.