Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management, The Open University, UK

'Take this book into your hand. Open it, start reading, and think about the text. The exercise is worth it. It opens up new intellectual horizons.'

• Contents: 1. Introduction and rationale 2. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part I 3. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part II 4. Public administration doctrines and themes revisited from a philosophical perspective 5. Political philosophy and public governance: the quest for justification in ‘common good’ and in ‘social contract’ arguments and their significance for the debate on the organisation of the public sector 6. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More: on virtues, realism, and utopian thinking in public administration 7. The search for consistency Index

Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management, The Open University, UK

'Take this book into your hand. Open it, start reading, and think about the text. The exercise is worth it. It opens up new intellectual horizons.'

• Contents: 1. Introduction and rationale 2. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part I 3. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part II 4. Public administration doctrines and themes revisited from a philosophical perspective 5. Political philosophy and public governance: the quest for justification in ‘common good’ and in ‘social contract’ arguments and their significance for the debate on the organisation of the public sector 6. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More: on virtues, realism, and utopian thinking in public administration 7. The search for consistency Index

Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management, The Open University, UK

'Take this book into your hand. Open it, start reading, and think about the text. The exercise is worth it. It opens up new intellectual horizons.'

• Contents: 1. Introduction and rationale 2. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part I 3. Key streams in philosophical inquiry: a selection and succinct overview for the field of public administration – Part II 4. Public administration doctrines and themes revisited from a philosophical perspective 5. Political philosophy and public governance: the quest for justification in ‘common good’ and in ‘social contract’ arguments and their significance for the debate on the organisation of the public sector 6. Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More: on virtues, realism, and utopian thinking in public administration 7. The search for consistency Index