The Governance Narrative: Key Findings and Lessons from the Erc’s Whitehall Programme
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Public Administration
- Vol. 78 (2) , 345-363
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00209
Abstract
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.Keywords
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