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Rethinking public policy-making : questioning assumptions, challenging beliefs : essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Vickers on his centenary / edited by Margaret Blunden, Malcolm Dando.

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Rethinking public policy-making : questioning assumptions, challenging beliefs : essays in honour of Sir Geoffrey Vickers on his centenary / edited by Margaret Blunden, Malcolm Dando.
Publication
London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, c1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Blunden, Margaret.
  • Dando, Malcolm.
  • Vickers, Geoffrey, Sir, 1894-1982.
Description
232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
This review of recent thinking in public policy-making, administration and management focuses on key issues for policy-making in the 1990s, using examples from health care, medicine and education. It covers: individual responsibility, institutional policy, and personal versus social independence.
Subject
Policy sciences
Note
  • "Originally published as a special issue of the American behavioral scientist (Volume 38, Number 1; September/October 1994)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword : governance in the hollow state / Rod A.W. Rhodes -- Introduction : Sir Geoffrey Vickers / Margaret Blunden and Malcolm Dando -- Vickers and postliberalism / Margaret Blunden -- Institutions and human relations : a search for stability in a changing world / Nevil Johnson -- Communitarianism, Vickers, and revisioning American public administration / Guy B. Adams and Bayard L. Catron -- Judgment and the cultivation of appreciation in policy-making / John Forester -- Systems theory and management thinking / Peter Checkland -- Health, health care reform, and the care of health / Nancy Milio -- Community medicine and the world of the well / Patrick C. Pietroni -- The process of education / Alvin M. White -- The management of international conflict / Malcolm Dando -- Autonomy, interdependence, and moral governance : pluralism in a rocking boat / Scott D.N. Cook -- Conditions for social responsibility / Lynton K. Caldwell.
ISBN
080397602X
LCCN
^^^95069026^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library