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  • MPI Bildungsforschung  (3)
  • SB Storkow
  • Charité
  • Topographie des Terrors und DZ
  • Hood, Christopher  (3)
  • 1
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    The blame game : spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government (2011)
    Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press
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    UID:
    gbv_687124166
    Format: Online-Ressource (xi, 226 pages) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    ISBN: 1282964534 , 9780691129952 , 9781282964532
    Content: The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines diffe
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART ONE: Blame, Credit, and Trust in Executive Government; CHAPTER ONE: Credit Claiming, Blame Avoidance, and Negativity Bias; CHAPTER TWO: Players in the Blame Game: Inside the World of Blame Avoidance; PART TWO: Avoiding Blame: Three Basic Strategies; CHAPTER THREE: Presentational Strategies: Winning the Argument, Drawing a Line, Changing the Subject, and Keeping a Low Profile; CHAPTER FOUR: Agency Strategies: Direct or Delegate, Choose or Inherit?; CHAPTER FIVE: Policy or Operational Strategies , CHAPTER SIX: The Institutional Dynamics of Blameworld: A New Teflon Era?PART THREE: Living in a World of Blame Avoidance; CHAPTER SEVEN: Mixing and Matching Blame-Avoidance Strategies; CHAPTER EIGHT: Democracy, Good Governance, and Blame Avoidance; CHAPTER NINE: The Last Word; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400836819
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1282964321
    Additional Edition: Print version The Blame Game Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
    RVK:
    MD 6300
    RVK:
    MF 6000
    RVK:
    MF 7800
    URL: Volltext
    URL: lizenzpflichtig
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    Author information: Hood, Christopher 1947-
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  • 2
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    The Art of the State : Culture, Rhetoric, and Public Management (1998)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK
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    UID:
    gbv_1696392306
    Format: 1 online resource (276 pages)
    ISBN: 9780191521126
    Content: This important new study, by a leading scholar in the field, offers a fresh perspective on public management. In contrast to the widespread claim of the 'modernization gurus' that a new era of global convergence is dawning in public management, it uses cultural theory to show why ideas about how to manage government are inherently plural and contradictory and likely to remain so.
    Content: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- PART I: INTRODUCTORY -- 1. Public Management: Seven Propositions -- 1. Public Management: Three Conventional Assumptions -- 2. What This Book Argues -- 3. Grid/Group Cultural Theory and Public Management -- 4. Putting Cultural Theory to Work in Analysing Public Management -- 5. Combining Cultural and Historical Perspectives -- 6. Modernity and Convergence in Cultural and Historical Perspective -- 7. The Stretchability and Centrality of the Cultural-Theory Frame -- 8. The Plan of the Book -- 2. Calamity, Conspiracy, and Chaos in Public Management -- 1. Responses to Public-Management Disasters -- 2. Four Types of Failure and Collapse -- 3. Private Gain from Public Office -- 4. Fiascos Resulting from Excessive Trust in Authority and Expertise -- 5. Unresolved Conflict and Internecine Strife -- 6. Apathy and Inertia: Lack of Planning, Initiative, and Foresight -- 7. Accounting for Failure in Public Management -- 3. Control and Regulation in Public Management -- 1. 'Bossism': Oversight and Review as an Approach to Control -- 2. 'Choicism': Control by Competition -- 3. 'Groupism': Control by Mutuality -- 4. 'Chancism': Control by Contrived Randomness -- 5. Ringing the Changes: Hybrids, Variants, and Alternatives -- PART II: CLASSIC AND RECURRING IDEAS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT -- 4. Doing Public Management the Hierarchist Way -- 1. What Hierarchists Believe -- 2. 'The Daddy of them All': Confucian Public Management -- 3. The European State-Builders: Cameralism and 'Policey Science' -- 4. Progressivism and Fabianism: 'Servants of the New Reorganization' -- 5. Conclusion -- 5. Doing Public Management the Individualist Way -- 1. What Individualists Believe About Public Management -- 2. Individualist Approaches, Old and New -- 3. Recurring Themes in Individualist Public Management.
    Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780198280408
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780198280408
    Language: English
    URL: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3052801
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  • 3
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    Reward for High Public Office : Asian and Pacific Rim States (2002)
    London : Routledge
    Details
    UID:
    gbv_722525702
    Format: Online-Ressource (213 p.)
    ISBN: 9780415303491
    Series Statement: Routledge research in comparative politics
    Content: An examination of rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems including case studies focusing on Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Singapore
    Note: Description based upon print version of record , Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword by; Preface; Rewards for high public office: an overview; Introduction; Alike at the summit?; The politics behind the numbers: seven cases; Rewarding comrades at the top in China; Rorts, perks and fat cats: rewards for high public office in Australia; New Zealand the end of egalitarianism?; Japan's pattern of rewards for high public office: a cultural perspective; The politics of rewards for high public office in Korea , Hong Kong institutional inheritance from colony to special administrative regionPaying for the 'best and brightest': rewards for high public office in Singapore; Conclusions; The top pay game and good governance where immodest theories meet slippery facts; References; Index;
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780203330722
    Additional Edition: Print version Reward for High Public Office : Asian and Pacific Rim States
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: Volltext
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