A new social ontology of government : consent, coordination, and authority
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A new social ontology of government : consent, coordination, and authority
(Foundations of government and public administration / series editors, Jos C.N. Raadschelders, R.A.W. Rhodes)(Palgrave pivot)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a better understanding of some of the central puzzles of empirical political science: how does "government" express will and purpose? How do political institutions come to have effective causal powers in the administration of policy and regulation? What accounts for both plasticity and perseverance of political institutions and practices? And how are we to formulate a better understanding of the persistence of dysfunctions in government and public administration - failures to achieve public goods, the persistence of self-dealing behavior by the actors of the state, and the apparent ubiquity of corruption even within otherwise high-functioning governments?
Table of Contents
1. Ontology and Government
2. Scientific Realism and the study of Government
3. The Ontology of Composition
4. Intellectual Tools for Understanding Government
5. Institutions, Norms, and Networks
6. Sources of Organization Failure
7. Electoral Democracy
8. What Does Government Do?
9. Governments as Regulators
10. Concluding Observations
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