Rethinking Governance - 9781138487369

Name: Rethinking Governance - 9781138487369
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Rethinking GovernanceRuling, rationalities and resistance\nAuthor(s): Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138487369, 978-1138487369\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional economics or, neoliberalism and new institutionalisms. In doing so, it suggests that that the British state consists of a vast array of meaningful actions that may coalesce into contingent, shifting, and contestable practices. Based on original fieldwork, it examines the myriad ways in which local actors - civil servants, mid-level public managers, and street level bureaucrats - have interpreted elite policy narratives and thus forged practices of governanc.