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The Governance Narrative: Key Findings and Lessons from the Erc’s Whitehall Programme
Author(s) -
Rhodes R.A.W
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00209
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , unintended consequences , narrative , corporate governance , diplomacy , interpretation (philosophy) , key (lock) , political science , public administration , fragmentation (computing) , public relations , sociology , management , economics , law , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , politics , computer science , biology , programming language , operating system
This article provides a personal interpretation of the key findings of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Whitehall Programme. I tell the distinctive story of ‘governance’— of fragmentation, networks, unintended consequences and diplomacy — challenging the dominant, managerial account of change in British govern‐ment since 1979. I present a view of the world in which networks rival markets and bureaucracy as ways of allocating resources and co‐ordinating policy and its implementation.