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The governance narrative: Key findings and lessons from the ESRC's Whitehall Programme

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Roderick Rhodes

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Abstract

This article provides a personal interpretation of the key findings of the Economic and Social Research Council's Whitehall Programme. I tell the distinctive story of 'governance' - of fragmentation, networks, unintended consequences and diplomacy - challenging the dominant, managerial account of change in British government since 1979. I present a view of the world in which networks rival markets and bureaucracy as ways of allocating resources and co-ordinating policy and its implementation.

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Author(s): Rhodes RAW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Public Administration

Year: 2000

Volume: 78

Issue: 2

Pages: 345-363

Print publication date: 01/08/2000

ISSN (print): 0033-3298

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9299

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9299.00209

DOI: 10.1111/1467-9299.00209

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