Rethinking governance : ruling, rationalities and resistance
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Rethinking governance : ruling, rationalities and resistance
(Routledge studies in governance and public policy, 24)
Routledge, 2016
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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