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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965305803321

Autore

Hood Christopher <1947->

Titolo

The blame game : spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government / / Christopher Hood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011

ISBN

9786612964534

9781282964532

1282964534

9781400836819

1400836816

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Classificazione

MD 6300

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Government accountability

Blame - Political aspects

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Blame, credit, and trust in executive government -- pt. 2. Avoiding blame : three basic strategies -- pt. 3. Living in a world of blame avoidance.

Sommario/riassunto

The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed. In The Blame Game, Christopher Hood takes a different approach by showing how blame avoidance shapes the workings of government and public services. Arguing that the blaming phenomenon is not all bad, Hood demonstrates that it can actually help to pin down responsibility, and he examines different kinds of blame avoidance, both positive and negative. Hood traces how the main forms of blame avoidance manifest themselves in presentational and "spin" activity, the architecture of organizations, and the shaping of standard operating routines. He analyzes the scope and limits of blame avoidance, and he considers how it plays out in old and new areas, such as those offered by the digital age of websites and e-mail. Hood



assesses the effects of this behavior, from high-level problems of democratic accountability trails going cold to the frustrations of dealing with organizations whose procedures seem to ensure that no one is responsible for anything. Delving into the inner workings of complex institutions, The Blame Game proves how a better understanding of blame avoidance can improve the quality of modern governance, management, and organizational design.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484906503321

Titolo

Database Systems for Advanced Applications : 25th International Conference, DASFAA 2020, Jeju, South Korea, September 24–27, 2020, Proceedings, Part I / / edited by Yunmook Nah, Bin Cui, Sang-Won Lee, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Yang-Sae Moon, Steven Euijong Whang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-59410-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXIV, 809 p. 351 illus., 250 illus. in color.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 12112

Disciplina

005.74

006.312

Soggetti

Data mining

Social sciences - Data processing

Education - Data processing

Machine learning

Computer networks

Database management

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Computers and Education

Machine Learning

Computer Communication Networks

Database Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Advanced database and web applications.-Big data -- Data mining -- Machine learning for database -- Data warehouse and OLAP -- Information retrieval -- Data model and query language -- Query processing -- Optimization -- Recommendation systems -- Data quality and credibility -- Multimedia databases -- Temporal and spatial databases -- Data streams and time-series data -- Semantic web and knowledge management -- Graph data management -- Social network analytics -- Bio and health informatics -- Blockchain and parallel/distributed systems -- Security -- Privacy and Trust -- Databases for emerging hardware.

Sommario/riassunto

The 4 volume set LNCS 12112-12114 constitutes the papers of the 25th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications which will be held online in September 2020. The 119 full papers presented together with 19 short papers plus 15 demo papers and 4 industrial papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 487 submissions. The conference program presents the state-of-the-art R&D activities in database systems and their applications. It provides a forum for technical presentations and discussions among database researchers, developers and users from academia, business and industry.