Understanting governance policy networks, governance, reflexivity and accountability

Understanding Governance asks: * What has changed in British government over the past two decades, how and why? * Why do so many government policies fail? * What does the shift from government to governance mean for the practice and study of British government? This book provides a challenging reint...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhodes, R. A. W.
Format: Kit
Language:Spanish
English
Edition:5a ed.
Series:Public policy and management
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Governing without Government: order and change in British politics 2. Policy networks in British political science 3. The new governance: governing without Government 4. The institutional approach 5. Reinventing Whitehall, 1979-95: hollowing out the state? 6. Now nobody understands the system: the changing face of British local government, 1979-95 7. The European Union, cohesion policy and sub-national authorities in the United Kingdom 8. From institutions to dogma: tradition, eclecticism and ideology in the study of British Public Administration 9. Towards a post-modern Public Administration: epoch, epistemology or narrative?