[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 →
[This is the first of a series of posts related to my forthcoming ‘Theory and Methods’ seminar The politics of regulation: Exploring bureaucracy and its consequences for public sector professions, to be delivered on the 13th February at the University of Glasgow [1:30-4pm, Rm 433, St. Andrew's Building]. The idea of these posts is to hone in on the… Read more →
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