THE ABSURDITY OF BUREAUCRACY by Nina Holm Vohnsen ( 9781526101341 )

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THE ABSURDITY OF BUREAUCRACY
HOW IMPLEMENTATION WORKS

By:

Nina Holm Vohnsen

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1526101343

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Publisher:

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

18 May, 2017

Series:

Political and Administrative Ethnography

Pages:

208

Description:

The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them. -- .

Synopsis:

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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