Fellow PNP-Netters,
I just received notice of the below new book that I thought would be of interest to others in our division.
Collegially,
Charles Wankel
St. John's University, New York
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have just released the latest book in series Research in Public Management:
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives
By Sandford Borins, University of Toronto
A volume in the series: Research in Public Management
Series Editor: Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to narratology, the inter-disciplinary study of narrative, for a conceptual framework that is applied to a set of narratives engaging life within public organizations, focusing on works produced during the last twenty-five years in the US and UK. The genres discussed include British government narratives inspired by and reacting to Yes Minister, British appeasement narratives, American political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis narrative, jury decision-making narratives, and heroic teacher narratives. In each genre lessons are presented regarding both effective management and essential narrative skills.
Governing Fables is intended for public management and political science scholars and practitioners interested in leadership and management, as well as readers drawn to the political subject matter and to the genre of political films, novels, and television series.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface Acknowledgements 1. Narrative as Object and Method of Study 2. Frontline Innovators: Transformational Teachers in America 3. The Ugly Business: British Narratives of Government 4. Churchill, Appeasement, Victory: The British Narrative of Leadership 5. Cynicism, Idealism, Compromise: American Political Fables 6. Kennedy, Cuba, History: Lessons of a Crisis Management Narrative 7. Matters of Life and Death: Two American Jury Narratives 8. Conclusion: A Story that is Just Beginning References About the Author
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