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Observing Government Elites - Up Close and Personal

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Zusatztext 'This volume provides a distinctive and innovative insight into...important issues based on ethnographic approaches that political scientists typically eschew. The scholarship is uniformly high! as would be expected from such a distinguished cohort of contributors. I would have no hesitation in recommending this work to all scholars with an interest in the broad field.' - Michael Cole! University of Liverpool! Political Studies Review Informationen zum Autor KARIN GEUIJEN Lecturer in Organizational Culture, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands P. O. NORRELL Associate Professor of Public Administration, Karlstad University, Sweden CRIS SHORE Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Auckland, New ZealandRENITA THEDVALL Postdoctoral Researcher, Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE), Stockholm University, SwedenKUTSAL YESILKAGIT Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Klappentext This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs, practices and traditions create meaning in politics and public policy making. It provides unique data on life of politicians and practical advice on how to conduct fieldwork. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries! describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs! practices and traditions create meaning in politics and public policy making. It provides unique data on life of politicians and practical advice on how to conduct fieldwork. Inhaltsverzeichnis Being There; R.A.W.Rhodes, P.'t Hart & M.Noordegraaf PART I: OBSERVING AT HOME The Everyday Life of a Minister: A Confessional and Impressionist Tale; R.A.W.Rhodes Spies at the Crossroads: Observing Change in the Dutch Intelligence Service; P.'t Hart Men at Work: How Public Policy Managers Cope; M.Noordegraaf Governing Karlstad: An Insider's Story; P.O.Norell PART II: OBSERVING ABROAD Dutch Eurocrats at Work: Getting Things in Done in Europe; K.Geuijen, P.'t Hart & K.Yesilkagit The EU's Nomads: National Eurocrats in European Policy Making; R.Thedvall European Integration in Anthropological Perspective: Studying the 'Culture' of the EU Civil Service; C.Shore So What? The prospects and Pitfalls of Being There; R.A.W.Rhodes, P.'t Hart & M.Noordegraaf...

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Being There; R.A.W.Rhodes, P.'t Hart & M.Noordegraaf PART I: OBSERVING AT HOME The Everyday Life of a Minister: A Confessional and Impressionist Tale; R.A.W.Rhodes Spies at the Crossroads: Observing Change in the Dutch Intelligence Service; P.'t Hart Men at Work: How Public Policy Managers Cope; M.Noordegraaf Governing Karlstad: An Insider's Story; P.O.Norell PART II: OBSERVING ABROAD Dutch Eurocrats at Work: Getting Things in Done in Europe; K.Geuijen, P.'t Hart & K.Yesilkagit The EU's Nomads: National Eurocrats in European Policy Making; R.Thedvall European Integration in Anthropological Perspective: Studying the 'Culture' of the EU Civil Service; C.Shore So What? The prospects and Pitfalls of Being There; R.A.W.Rhodes, P.'t Hart & M.Noordegraaf

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'This volume provides a distinctive and innovative insight into...important issues based on ethnographic approaches that political scientists typically eschew. The scholarship is uniformly high, as would be expected from such a distinguished cohort of contributors. I would have no hesitation in recommending this work to all scholars with an interest in the broad field.' - Michael Cole, University of Liverpool, Political Studies Review

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Authors &apos, R. A. W. Hart Rhodes, Mir T Noordegraaf
Assisted by P 't Hart (Editor), P. 'T Hart (Editor), Paul T. Hart (Editor), Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), M Noordegraaf (Editor), M. Noordegraaf (Editor), Mirko Noordegraaf (Editor), M Noordegraaf et al (Editor), R. Rhodes (Editor), R. A. W. Rhodes (Editor), 't Hart (Editor), P 't Hart (Editor), Paul 'T Hart (Editor), Paul ''T Hart (Editor)
Publisher Palgrave UK
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 21.11.2007
 
EAN 9780230008403
ISBN 978-0-230-00840-3
No. of pages 263
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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