Title | Government Institutions: Effects, Changes and Normative Foundations [electronic resource] / edited by Hendrik Wagenaar |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0963-8 |
Descript | VIII, 257 p. online resource |
I Institutional Change -- Institutional crises and reforms in policy sectors -- Institutional change of welfare states Empirical reality, theoretical obstacles -- The interplay of institutional sectors Negotiating policy change in the Dutch welfare state -- II Testing Institutional Theory -- Dedicated followers of fashion Program emulation at Dutch universities -- Constitutional change in the European Union Parliamentโs impact on the reform of the codecision procedure -- III Normative Foundations of Government Institutions -- Legitimate governance within the state -- The Procrustean Bed Of The Rational Organization The works of Taylor, Weber and Fayol revisited -- Oedipus in the Welfare Office Practice, discourse and identity in public administration -- IV Institutional Design -- Cultural bias and framing wicked problems A comparative analysis of structuring the car mobility problem by three institutes for parliamentarian technology assessment -- Institutional change and implementation A dynamic implementation-study of the Dutch General Administrative Law Act -- Organizing Accountability: From Best Practices to Dilemmas in Design -- Design in Context: Applying Institutional Analysis to Social Designing -- Biography