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Governance and Performance: New Perspectives. (book review)

Carolyn J. Heinrich and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., eds. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000. 349 pp. $65.00, cloth: $23.95. paper.

While the term "public management" has been used in the field of public administration for a long time, in recent decades the topic has received increasing attention from researchers interested in the theory and practice of managing and organizing in the governmental sector. Some researchers in public administration have employed the rubric in expressing their conviction that their field needs a richer base of theory and empirical

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