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Author Vohnsen, Nina Holm, author

Title The absurdity of bureaucracy : how implementation works / Nina Holm Vohnsen
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Series Political and administrative ethnography
Summary The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them, or surpassing them
Analysis Active-Back Sooner
Danish municipalities
bureaucratic system
institutional absurdity
labor market effort
ministerial reality
multiple purposes
policy mutation
sensible decision
sickness benefit
social workers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Bureaucracy.
Policy sciences.
Organizational sociology.
Bureaucracy -- Denmark
Policy sciences -- Denmark
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Bureaucracy
Organizational sociology
Policy sciences
Denmark
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526101358
1526101351
9781526128539
1526128535
9781526101365
152610136X