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100			_aGregory, Robert
245			_aThe peculiar tasks of public management: toward conceptual discrimination
260			_c1997
300			_ap.41-63
362			_aJul-Sep
520			_aRecent contributions to AJPA have suggested new conceptual directions for public management in response to the stand-off between managerialists and their critics. In emphasising the inherent political dimensions of public management, this article seeks to build on these contributions. It does so by combining some of the insights of previous contributors with a simple matrix devised originally by American scholar James Q Wilson. The central proposition is that attempts to render public management more like private management have been too far-reaching, and do not adequately appreciate the intractable difficulties that stem from the types of task that are peculiar to public organisations. It is suggested that there should be less reliance on dubious metaphors borrowed from the business domain. Instead, a greater degree of theoretical eclecticism and conceptual discrimination should be used in understanding and developing public management. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aManagement in Government
909			_a37069
999			_c37069 _d37069