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Institutional Memory as Storytelling

Institutional Memory as Storytelling
  • How Networked Government Remembers
  • Jack Corbett, Dennis Christian Grube, Heather Caroline Lovell, Rodney James Scott
  • Published online:
    03 December 2020
    Print publication:
    24 December 2020
  • How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated polity. Drawing on four policy examples from four sectors (housing, energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable. It is concluded that the current conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern collaborative governance.

  • 13 - Accountability in the Governance of Global Change

  • from Part Two - Agency and the Dynamics of Earth System Governance
  • Edited by Michele M. Betsill, Colorado State University, Tabitha M. Benney, University of Utah, Andrea K. Gerlak, University of Arizona
  • Book:
    Agency in Earth System Governance
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 2020, pp 155-167

  • Summary

    − ESG-Agency scholarship on accountability is linked to legitimacy and agency theories and to research on architecture and power. − ESG-Agency scholars often consider accountability as an isolated, static and normative property, with relatively little critical reflection on its broader, evolving role in earth system governance. − Greater theoretical development is needed on how accountability operates between extremes of governance level (individual to international) and how this relates to international environmental governance initiatives.