ABSTRACT
Following a brief survey of the four main chapters of the book, this final chapter looks at the new challenges facing public management from global warming to the rise of populism and affective polarisation. Efforts to tackle these issues might be assisted somewhat by the development of new instruments associated with e-governance, nudge and policy mixes of hierarchy, markets and networks. Public management of the twenty-first century stands to be further helped by new research horizons opened up by experiments, new data and rapidly expanding opportunities for comparative research. This chapter concludes with the suggestion that the challenges facing public management in the twenty-first century require a continued focus on the big questions of how we make people and problems governable.
