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- Title
Public managers and policy communities: learning to meet new challenges.
- Authors
Lindquist, Evert A.
- Abstract
Comprehending external environments is an increasingly important facet of the work of senior public servants. The purpose of this paper is to introduce concepts that will help practitioners and academic observers to describe and analyse the structure and dynamics of policy communities. The paper first draws from the political science literature to identify different networks in policy communities, considering how the role of public managers changes from network to network, and then models policy communities as "learning" entities consisting of advocacy coalitions responding to policy challenges in competitive and cooperative interactions. The paper concludes that public managers have a special stewardship function in facilitating more productive learning within policy communities.
- Subjects
PUBLIC officers; CIVIL service; POLITICAL science literature; COMMUNITIES; POLICY analysis; POLICY networks; COALITIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Canadian Public Administration, 1992, Vol 35, Issue 2, p127
- ISSN
0008-4840
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1754-7121.1992.tb00685.x