Manufacturing Political Trust - Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Performance measurement and the production of trust; 2. The problem of political trust; 3. The double life of targets; 4. Monitoring public administration; 5. Information and trust; 6. Public trust in targets; 7. Targets and issue definition; 8. After performance measurement?

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research (Cambridge, 2009). Christina is currently leading a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project entitled 'Seeing Illegal Immigrants: State Monitoring and Political Rationality', which explores how public authorities in France, Germany and the UK have constructed and monitored irregular migrants since the 1960s.

Zusammenfassung

Manufacturing Political Trust offers researchers across the social and political sciences an original account of how performance measurement has been used as a means of producing political trust. Boswell draws on a range of theoretical approaches to understand how and why governments persevere in monitoring performance to increase trust and accountability, despite its adverse effects.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christina Boswell, Christina (University of Edinburgh) Boswell, Boswell Christina
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108431590
• ISBN: 978-1-108-43159-0
• Seiten: 228
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Comparative Politics, Politics and government, Political science and theory