Many writers including John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith have noted that most current versions of "democracy" are not fit for purpose. They amount to goverment by "committees of ignoramuses". Smith sought to design an organic sociocybernetic system having multiple feedback loops analagous to that which governs the internal functioning of animals. His "Market" proposal does not and cannot work. But who has been working on the development of an alternative?
Alberto Guerreiro-Ramos (a Brazilian sociologist) published in 1981 his book "The New Science of Organizations. A Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations." It would be worth to read his work and discussions on his contributions to public administration. A short list of references would be the following;
Azevedo, A. y Albernaz, R. (2006). Alberto Guerreiro Ramos's Anthropological Approach to the Social Scientes: The Parenthetical Man. Administrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 28, No. 4, 501-521.
Boeira, S. L. (2002). Ecología Política: Guerreiro Ramos e Frit Jof Capra. Ambiente & Sociedade, Año V, No. 10, 1-21.
Boeira, S. y Mudrey, D. (2010). Teoria da Delimitaçai de Sistemas Sociais em duas unidades da Uni-Yoga. Organizações & Sociedade, V. 17, N. 52, 157-173.
Candler, G. (2012). The study of administrative science outside the "core": The universal fight against epistemic colonialism and for "critical assimilation". II Colóquio International de Epistemologia e Sociologia da Ciencia da Administracao. Floranópolis, SC: Universidad Santa Catarina.
Candler, G. G. (2002). Particularims versus Universalism in the Brazilian Public Administration Literature. Public Administration Review, Vol. 62, No. 3, 298-306.
Candler, G. G. y Ventriss, C. (2006). Symposium - The Destiny of a Theory: Beyond the New Science of Organizactions. Introduction to the Symposium: Why Guerreiro. Adminstrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 28, No. 4, 495-500.
Carvalho, G. y Filho, F. (2010, V. 17, N. 52). Decifrando a Noção de Paraeconomia em Guerreiro Ramos: a atualidade de sua proposição. Organizações & Sociedade, 175-197.
Faria, J. H. (2009). Consciência crítica com ciência idealista: paradoxos da redução sociológica na fenomenologia de Guerreiro Ramos. Cadernos EBAPE.BR 7 (3), 419-446.
Guerreiro Ramos, A. (1946). Sociologia de Max Weber – sua importância para a Teoria e a Prática da Administração. Revista do Serviço Público, 3, 129-139.
Guerreiro Ramos, A. (1958 [2001]). A redução sociológica, en Heidemann, F (2001) Nota Bibliográfica de a "Modelos de Homem e Teoria Administrativa". Caderno de Ciencias Sociais Aplicadas, PUC-PR.
Guerreiro Ramos, A. (1965). A redução sociológica. Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro.
Guerreiro-Ramos, A. (1972). Modelos de Homem e Teoría Adminstrativa. Public Administration Review, Vol 32, No. 3, 241-246.
Guerreiro-Ramos, A. (1976). Theory of Social Systems Delineation: A Preliminary Statement. Administration and Society 8 (2), 249-271.
Guerreiro-Ramos, A. (1981). The New Science of Organizations. A Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations. Totonto: University of Toronto Press.
Pizza-Junior, W. (2010). Guerreiro Ramos, Administraçao e Ciencias Sociais. Organizações & Sociedade, V. 12, N. 52, 201-208.
Salm, J. F., Candler, G. G. y Ventriss, C. (2006). The theory of social systems delimitation and the reconceptualizacion of public administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 28, No. 4, 522-539.
Serva, M. (1997). A racionalidade substantiva demonstrada na prática administrativa. Revista de administração de empresas, V. 37, N. 2, 18-30.
Ventriss, C. y Candler, G. G. (2005). Alberto Guerreiro Ramos, 20 Years Later: A New Science still Unrealized in an Era of Public Cynicism and Theoretical Ambivalence. Public Administration Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 347-359.
Ventriss, C., Candler, G. G. y Salm, J. F. (2010). Alberto Guerreiro Ramos: the “in-betweener” as intellectual bridge builder? Organizações & Sociedade 17 (52) , 495-500 .
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Good question and one answer is that in the last decade New Public Governance is emerging as an approach and alternative to New Public Management. NPG takes on ideas of trust, participation and flexibility. Currently, a number of symposiums are underway.
For a key founding text see: Osborne, Stephen P. (2006), “The New Public Governance?”, Public Management Review, Vol. 8 , Iss. 3,pp. 377-387
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Please read the book edited by Osborne, Stephen P. (2010), on “The New Public Governance? Routledge:London
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Book "Public Administration and Public Governance" Author: Khan Mohammad Mohabbat, (2016) , AHDP:Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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I wrote a potentially interesting paper about this topic, which, I assume, might fit your question well. It compares the different management views of public management (Weberian bureaucracy, New Public Management and New Public Governance) and argues that, today, many public organizations simulatenously combine these management views.
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Lode
A relatively recent trend has been labelled 'New Public Leadership' A book by stephen brookes is a useful summary
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230224179
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