1st Edition
Rethinking Governance Ruling, rationalities and resistance
Introduction 1. The "3Rs" in rethinking governance: ruling, rationalities, and resistance, Mark Bevir and R A W Rhodes Part I: Ruling Narratives 2. Governance and Modernist Social Science: a genealogy, Mark Bevir 3. What’s wrong with Whitehall? Mandarins and ways of thinking in British government, Graham K. Wilson 4. Mass Privatization, and the Changing Nature of Governance in the UK, Mike Raco 5. Educational governance in England, Stephen J Ball and Carolina Junemann 6. Claiming Authority over the NHS, Scott Greer 7. The Governance of Social Care for the Elderly in England, Jonathan Bradbury Part II: Decentring practice: rationalities and resistance 8. Negotiating Austerity and Local Traditions, Alison Gardner and Vivien Lowndes 9. Austerity Realism and the Governance of Leicester, Jonathan Davies and E. Thompson 10. Contestation and Contingency in Advisory Governance, Claire Dunlop 11. Proactivity in tax administration: nudging the knotty, Karen Boll 12. Local knowledge: an interpretive analysis, R. A. W. Rhodes
Biography
Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is the author of various books including Interpreting Global Security (Routledge, 2013), and The Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science (Routledge, 2015).
Rod Rhodes is Professor of Government, Research, at the University of Southampton, UK. He has authored and edited numerous books including, The Routledge Handbook of Interpretive Political Science (Routledge 2015). He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in both Australia and the UK.
