Machine derived contents note: Part I. INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Public Management: Seven Propostions -- 2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management -- 3. Control and Regulation in Public Management -- Part II. CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT -- 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way -- 5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way -- 6. Doing Public Management the Egalitarian Way -- 7. Doing Public Management the Fatalist Way? -- Part III. RHETORIC, MODERNITY, AND SCIENCE IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT -- 8. Public Management, Rhetoric, and Culture -- 9. Contemporary Public Management: A New Global Paradigm? -- 10. Taking Stock: The State of the Art of the State.