Public management: seven propositions. -- Calamity, conspiracy, and chaos in public management. -- Control and regulation in public management. -- Doing public management the hierarchist way. -- Doing public management the individualist way. -- Doing public management the egalitarian way. -- Doing public management the fatalist way. -- Public management, rhetoric, and culture. -- Contemporary public management: a new global paradigm? -- Taking stock: the state of the art of the state.

1. Democracy
2. Comparative government