Public administration in contested societies
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Public administration in contested societies
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-220) and index
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Description
Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, public administration has not been used to understand how conflict is managed. This book explores the everyday management of conflict in two cases of power-sharing from the view of elite level bureaucrats
Table of Contents
1. Representative Bureaucracy in Plural Societies 2. Researching in Contested Cities: Belfast and Brussels 3. Belfast: Everyday Policy-making in a Contested Environment 4. Brussels: Power-Sharing at the Lowest Common Denominator 5. The Merit Principle in a Representative Bureaucracy: Belfast 6. Active Representation within the Power-sharing Society: The Values Guiding Administrative Decision-making in Belfast and Brussels 7. Concluding Remarks: Bureaucrats and Conflict Management
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