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Governance and Leadership

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Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Accountability; Governance; Integrity; Leadership; Organizations; Public action; State-market dualism; State-market-civil society synergism; Statism

Introduction

Governance and leadership are essential in public life and, accordingly, are very worthy of practical and scholarly attention. Their efficacy must be a matter of considerable public interest. They complement one another, while also being interdependent. This is so irrespective of their types or modes, which are diverse within and across countries and political systems.

Governance and leadership are, and have always been, fundamentally about goal-oriented alignments of people, structures, processes, resources, and place (Gulick 1937; Simon 1946; Peters 2010, pp. 139–154). Such alignments, which are usually even more diverse than the governance and leadership around which they are configured, inevitably involve forms of organization as instruments of public action. Consequently, and significantly, most types of...

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  1. Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Ian Thynne

  2. Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Ian Thynne

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Thynne, I. (2016). Governance and Leadership. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2245-1

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