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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... stress the constructed nature of our claims to knowledge (Rorty 1980). Adherents of a positivist epistemology study political actions and institutions as atomised units, which they examine individually before assembling them into larger ...
... stress the constructed nature of our claims to knowledge (Rorty 1980). Adherents of a positivist epistemology study political actions and institutions as atomised units, which they examine individually before assembling them into larger ...
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... stress falls on how these changes arose out of competing webs of belief informed by different traditions. Governance refers to the informal authority of networks as constitutive of, supplementing or supplanting the formal authority of ...
... stress falls on how these changes arose out of competing webs of belief informed by different traditions. Governance refers to the informal authority of networks as constitutive of, supplementing or supplanting the formal authority of ...
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... ? And, is governance failure inevitable? Throughout we stress that the key question posed by an interpretive approach is 'whose story within which tradition'. In Part II we provide three examples of how to Introduction: on governance 11.
... ? And, is governance failure inevitable? Throughout we stress that the key question posed by an interpretive approach is 'whose story within which tradition'. In Part II we provide three examples of how to Introduction: on governance 11.
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... stresses joined-up policy-making precisely to deal with dilemmas such as fragmentation and a loss of control by the centre. It favours the delivery of public services by steering networks of organisations. It seeks a shift to an ...
... stresses joined-up policy-making precisely to deal with dilemmas such as fragmentation and a loss of control by the centre. It favours the delivery of public services by steering networks of organisations. It seeks a shift to an ...
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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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