Translating Agency Reform
Rhetoric and Culture in Comparative Perspective
Authors: Smullen, A.
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- About this book
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Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea.
- About the authors
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AMANDA SMULLEN is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management, Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She is co-author of Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations and has published in various journals including Public Administration, Comparative Policy Analysis and Critical Policy Analysis.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Translating Agency Reform
Pages 3-15
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Agency Reform: Tracing a Public Management Fashion
Pages 16-39
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Theoretical Concepts and Tools: Rhetoric and Culture
Pages 43-64
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The Trajectory of Agency Talk Across The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia
Pages 65-108
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Comparing Official Agency Talk: National Speaking Styles and the Role of Cultural Context?
Pages 111-134
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Translating Agency Reform
- Book Subtitle
- Rhetoric and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Authors
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- A. Smullen
- Series Title
- Public Sector Organizations
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Amanda Smullen
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-28970-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230289703
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-58072-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-36865-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 191
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