Zakupen' T.V. Why is the public management system functioning, but not meeting the expectations? The review of the scientific monograph by I.V. Ponkin “The Theory of Public Management Deviance Study: Uncertainties, Risks, Drawbacks, Malfunctions, and Failures of Public Management”

Abstract: The research object is the scientific monograph by I.V. Ponkin “The Theory of Public Management Deviance Study: Uncertainties, Risks, Drawbacks, Malfunctions, and Failures of Public Management”, Moscow, 2016. The author of the review studies the mentioned scientific monograph from the position of the relevance (compliance with the expectations about applicability) of the complex scientific model proposed in the monograph. The reviewer links the content of the monograph with the projects of transformation of the existing Russian public management model into the model of “project-oriented public management”, recently articulated by the liberal economists. The research methodology is conditioned by the purposes of scientific reviewing and includes the methods of analysis, induction and deduction, and the method of prognostic modeling (in terms of the relevance check). The reviewer concludes about the high level of topicality, scientific novelty and practical value of the monograph and the proposed scientific theory. 

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