Interpreting British GovernanceRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 240 pages How is Britain governed? Have we entered a new era of governance? Can traditional approaches to governance help us to interpret 21st century Britain? This book develops the argument that we can understand political practices only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open way of speaking about British government. |
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... argues that political practices can be understood only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open ...
... argues that political practices can be understood only by grasping the beliefs on which people act. It offers a governance narrative as a challenge to the Westminster model of British government and searches for a more accurate and open ...
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... argue individuals are not autonomous, so they necessarily come to hold the beliefs they do within a social context that influences them. To explain the beliefs of a particular individual, we have to appeal to an aggregate concept, such ...
... argue individuals are not autonomous, so they necessarily come to hold the beliefs they do within a social context that influences them. To explain the beliefs of a particular individual, we have to appeal to an aggregate concept, such ...
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... argues that historians ask questions and then answer them with stories that make sense out of 'facts', which in their raw form make no sense at all. He summarises his position by saying, history should be (a) . . . an answering of ...
... argues that historians ask questions and then answer them with stories that make sense out of 'facts', which in their raw form make no sense at all. He summarises his position by saying, history should be (a) . . . an answering of ...
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... argue that governance has arisen out of contingent and contested narratives. We present four narratives of governance: intermediate institutions, networks of communities, reinventing the constitution and joined-up government. The ...
... argue that governance has arisen out of contingent and contested narratives. We present four narratives of governance: intermediate institutions, networks of communities, reinventing the constitution and joined-up government. The ...
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... argues that one of the 'tacit understandings' about political community was 'a belief among politicians of all complexions that the relationship between government and society was essentially a limited one'. Civil society was 'the ...
... argues that one of the 'tacit understandings' about political community was 'a belief among politicians of all complexions that the relationship between government and society was essentially a limited one'. Civil society was 'the ...
Contents
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The public sector on traditions and dilemmas
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The civil service on history and ethnography
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Bibliography | 202 |
Index | 227 |
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