Rethinking Governance: Ruling, Rationalities and Resistance

ISBN-13: 9781138889354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 226 str.

R. A. W. Rhodes; Mark Bevir

Opis

This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional economics or, neoliberalism and new institutionalisms. In doing so, it suggests that that the British state consists of a vast array of meaningful actions that may coalesce into contingent, shifting, and contestable practices. Based on original fieldwork, it examines the myriad ways in which local actors - civil servants, mid-level public managers, and street level bureaucrats - have interpreted elite policy narratives and thus forged practices of governance on the ground.

This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of governance and public policy.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The "3Rs" in rethinking governance: ruling, rationalities, and resistance Part I: Ruling Narratives 2. Governance and Modernist Social Science: a genealogy 3. What’s wrong with Whitehall? Mandarins and ways of thinking in British government 4. Mass Privatization, and the Changing Nature of Governance in the UK 5. Educational governance in England 6. Claiming Authority over the NHS 7. The Governance of Social Care for the Elderly in England Part II: Decentring practice: rationalities and resistance 8. Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions 9. Austerity Realism and the Governance of Leicester 10. Contestation and Contingency in Advisory Governance 11. Proactivity in tax administration: nudging the knotty 12. Local knowledge: an interpretive analysis