Christian Lo

When politics meets bureaucracy

Rules, norms, conformity and cheating

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Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Political Ethnography
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781526136688
• ISBN-10: 1526136686
• Artikelnr.: 57477153

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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