O'Connor Public Administration in Contested Societies

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-29815-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, eBook

Why are some conflicts managed better than others? Social scientists have used various disciplinary lenses to answer this question but until now, public administration has not been used to understand how conflict is managed. This book explores the everyday management of conflict in two cases of power-sharing from the view of elite level bureaucrats

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Connor, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Representative Bureaucracy in Plural Societies 2. Researching in Contested Cities: Belfast and Brussels 3. Belfast: Everyday Policy-making in a Contested Environment 4. Brussels: Power-Sharing at the Lowest Common Denominator 5. The Merit Principle in a Representative Bureaucracy: Belfast 6. Active Representation within the Power-sharing Society: The Values Guiding Administrative Decision-making in Belfast and Brussels 7. Concluding Remarks: Bureaucrats and Conflict Management

Über Autor(innen)

Karl O' Connor is Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, University of Ulster, UK. He has published in the areas of conflict management/resolution, public policy, bureaucrat behaviour, Q Methodology and European committee governance. His PhD thesis, upon which this book is based, won The Hutton Prize for Excellence which aims to reward research that contributes to increasing standards of governance.