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Author Pollitt, Christopher.

Title Time, policy, management : governing with the past / Christopher Pollitt
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 213 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-199) and index
Notes English
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Subject Public administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
Public administration
Tid -- sociologiska aspekter.
Offentliga sektorn.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007051157
ISBN 0191553387
9780191553387
9786611528973
6611528970
1281528978
9781281528971