Democracia, gobierno y administración pública contemporánea

The book Democracy, Government and Contemporary Public Administration offers an exhaustive and systematic vision of those ideas and principles that have inspired, from different logics of action (bureaucratic, neo-managerial or neo-public), the transformations in the models of organization and operation of the institutions belonging to the executive branch in order to provide legitimacy to their processes and / or results. In addition, the work delves into some of the key elements that allow modernizing and innovating, at present, the ways of doing and acting of the Governments and Public Administrations to improve the quality of democracy, also paying special attention to certain public and private actors who play a strategic role in the governance of public affairs. Therefore, this book is characterized by generating basic knowledge for the academic field (researchers and university students), which can also be extremely useful for professionals in the public and parapublic sector who intend to investigate these issues, as well as for society in general, becoming, in this way, a fundamental instrument for educating citizens.