Lo When politics meets bureaucracy

Rules, norms, conformity and cheating
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3669-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Reihe: Political Ethnography

This book presents an ethnographic study of policy-making in two different Norwegian municipalities, where the author analyses the straregies and tactics employed by both local politicians and bureaucrats. Through an interdisicplinary approach, the book explores the relationship between the central concepts of government and of governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lo, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction
2 From government to governance? Re-examining the transformation thesis
3 Narratives of local government
4 An introduction to municipal policy development
5 Normative hierarchy: the rules of political struggle
6 Pragmatic egalitarianism: tales of municipal entrepreneurship
7 Conclusions: between government and governance
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Lo is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University and Senior Researcher at the Nordland Research Institute (Nordlandsforskning)