Time, policy, management : governing with the past / / Christopher Pollitt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813096903321
• Autore: Pollitt Christopher
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 1-281-52897-8; 9786611528973; 0-19-155338-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 351
• Soggetti: Public administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The end of time? -- Timeships : navigating the past -- History in action : a tale of two hospitals -- Beyond history -- Review and re-interpretation -- A toolkit for time? -- Wider implications for governments -- After all.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the practice and study of contemporary public management: that of time. Pollitt traces the character of, and the reasons for, this neglect in his wide-ranging study. - ;In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the practice and study of contemporary public policymaking an