Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- one Forty years of public management reform in UK central government: promises, promises …
- two Political anthropology and civil service reform: prospects and limits
- three Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism
- four Performing new worlds? Policy, politics and creative labour in hard times
- five Weathering the perfect storm? Austerity and institutional resilience in local government
- six Complex causality in improving underperforming schools: a complex adaptive systems approach
- seven Toward policy coordination: alternatives to hierarchy
- eight Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems?
- nine All tools are informational now: how information and persuasion define the tools of government
- ten The politics of engaged scholarship: impact, relevance and imagination
- eleven Reflections on contemporary debates in policy studies
- Index
Notes on contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- one Forty years of public management reform in UK central government: promises, promises …
- two Political anthropology and civil service reform: prospects and limits
- three Just do it differently? Everyday making, Marxism and the struggle against neoliberalism
- four Performing new worlds? Policy, politics and creative labour in hard times
- five Weathering the perfect storm? Austerity and institutional resilience in local government
- six Complex causality in improving underperforming schools: a complex adaptive systems approach
- seven Toward policy coordination: alternatives to hierarchy
- eight Governing local partnerships: does external steering help local agencies address wicked problems?
- nine All tools are informational now: how information and persuasion define the tools of government
- ten The politics of engaged scholarship: impact, relevance and imagination
- eleven Reflections on contemporary debates in policy studies
- Index
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- Rethinking Policy and PoliticsReflections on Contemporary Debates in Policy Studies, pp. v - viiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2014