Nina Holm Vohnsen

The absurdity of bureaucracy (eBook, ePUB)

How implementation works

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The absurdity of bureaucracy offers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy. Taking the reader deep into the hallways of governmental administration and municipal caseworkers' offices, the book sets out to explore what characterizes policy implementation as a mode of human agency. Using the notions of absurdity and sense-making as lenses through which to explore the dynamic relationship between a policy and its effects, the book reclaims 'implementation studies' for the qualitative sciences and emphasizes the existential dilemma that any policymaker and implementer must confront. Following step-by-step the planning and implementation of the randomized controlled trial, Active - Back Sooner, the book sets out to show that 'going wrong' is not a question of implementation failure but is in fact the only way in which implementation may happen.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101365
• Artikelnr.: 48796348

Autorenporträt

Nina Holm Vohnsen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University

Inhaltsangabe

Series editor's preface Acknowledgements Reading guide Central people,
documents, and organizations Prologue: Labor days Introduction: the
absurdity of bureaucracy 1 Anticipations Portrait 1: "making a difference"
Portrait 2: the perfect plan Analysis: a container of discrete agendas 2
Mutations Portrait 3: the trial mutates Portrait 4: satisfying needs
Analysis: vectors of concern 3 Multiplications Portrait 5: the purpose
multiplies Portrait 6: the productivity of controversy Analysis: absurdity
is a perspective that appreciates the sum-total 4 The quest for meaning
Portrait 7: "bending" the rules and agreements Portrait 8: the end of
meaning Analysis: they rebel, they do not resist 5 How implementation works
Epilogue: bureaucracy-choose your own adventure Appendix: data, position,
method