The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant

Abstract

In an increasingly globalised world, the essential roles and functions that public servants perform are constantly evolving at various levels across different geographical and cultural contexts. This Handbook intends to foster an up-to-date understanding of the evolution of the public servant in different traditions and waves of reform. In particular, it navigates through the emerging actors and new terrains that public servants operate and translate public value into practice. This Handbook contributes to a closer understanding of identities, motivations, values, roles, skills, and positions. It also serves to chart the future courses of development for the public servant with practice-informed and evidence-based research with synthesised insights from practitioners and scholars.

Keywords

• public service
• value and motivation
• government
• globalisation
• evidence-based policy making
• co-production