<title>Abstract</title> A multi-level analytic framework termed a ‘logic of governance’ is used to identify systematic patterns of health care governance from the findings of disparate research studies. Using a subset of 112 studies on health care service delivery, we use an ‘inside-out’ interpretive...

Public management requires a diffuse set of activities that extend far beyond the simple activities once encompassed in the study of public administration. The study of public management is hampered by the lack of theory to guide research on the roles and contributions of public managers. By...

The field of public management draws on a rich and varied trove of intellectual resources. Applying scholarship and imagination, its students can recognize, interpret, and predict the reality of managing governmental organizations with considerable acuity. If the field is to advance, however,...