This book examines the different normative approaches politicians, bureaucrats and community actors use to frame the innovation puzzle, arguing that these create specific cultures of innovation.The authors explore the role of formal institutions and informal networks in promoting and impeding governmental innovation."
This book examines the different normative approaches politicians, bureaucrats and community actors use to frame the innovation puzzle, arguing that t...
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame the decisions as the outcomes of a rational search for value-maximising alternatives or the result of systematic and well-ordered institutional and organisational processes.
Yet understanding how personal and emotional factors interact with broader institutional and organisational...
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think a...
