Stewart Clegg, Martin Harris and Harro Höpfl (2011) Managing modernity: beyond bureaucracy? Oxford: Oxford University Press. ‘Managing modernity: beyond bureaucracy’ is the type of collection that illustrates just how good edited books can be, once care is taken over choice of topic, range of authors and strength of case study. This is certainly the case here, in a book that… Read more →
[image (c) Le service photo du Conseil général du Val-de-Marne] In last week’s seminar (abstract here), I discussed how the unintended consequences of the new bureaucracy (including time compression and the rise of jurisphobia) might be best understood as manifestations of a struggle over forms of regulation – political, temporal and legal. My aim was to counteract the naive… Read more →
One regulatory mechanism accountability must inevitably encounter is time, although there is a surprising dearth of research on this relationship. This is surprising, as for Lipsky’s street-level bureaucrats, the exercise of professional judgement is essential to their function as shapers of public policy, a core professional function that relies strongly on the quality of time provided to make such… Read more →
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