Beyond Delivery: Policy Implementation as Sense-Making and Settlement - Softcover

Peck, E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349545074 ISBN 13: 9781349545070

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Synopsis

Beyond Delivery sets out a critique of the mechanical ways in which some policy makers seek to exercise governance over the implementation of their policies. It offers a timely critique of the current British government's approach.

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About the Author

EDWARD PECK is Professor of Healthcare Partnerships, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of the Health Services Management Centre, UK. He is especially interested in the theory and practice of organizational development. His recent books include Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations (with Perri 6, 2006) and Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations and Achievements (2005).

PERRI 6 is Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His recent books include Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations (with Edward Peck, 2006), E-governance: Styles of Political Judgment in the Information Age Polity (2004) and Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda (2002).

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349545074
• ISBN 13: 9781349545070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259