In:
Administration & Society, SAGE Publications, Vol. 38, No. 3 ( 2006-07), p. 309-334
Kurzfassung:
As societies worldwide struggle to address what policy analysts call “wicked problems” such as world hunger, malnutrition, and ecological sustainability, analysts from a variety of perspectives have questioned the administrative state’s abilities to deal with them. Ascendant since the early 1990s as a prescription for remedying these shortcomings is a market, technocratic, and non-deliberative theory of administration that some have called “neo-managerialism” and others the “managerialist ideology.” This study uses European attitudes toward promoting the use of genetically modified (GM) foods as a “policy window” for exploring how well or ill-suited the neo-managerialist philosophy informing the U.S. government’s promotional campaign was with the factors driving European opposition to GM foods. Causal modeling of the “calculus of dissent” that led to a the European Union (EU) moratorium on GM foods suggests that deliberative (rather than neo-managerialist) theories of administration are better suited for the “collective puzzlement of society” that wicked problems require.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0095-3997
,
1552-3039
DOI:
10.1177/0095399706289713
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
SAGE Publications
Publikationsdatum:
2006
ZDB Id:
1499970-5
SSG:
2
SSG:
3,4
SSG:
3,7
