Paradoxes of Modernization

Name: Paradoxes of Modernization
Author: . Ed(s): Margetts, Helen; 6, Perri; Hood, Christopher
ISBN: 9780199573547

. Ed(s): Margetts, Helen; 6, Perri; Hood, Christopher

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, 2010

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Paradoxes of Modernization explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Editor(s): Margetts, Helen; 6, Perri; Hood, Christopher. Num Pages: 292 pages, Six line and halftones. BIC Classification: JPP; KJMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 212 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590. . 2010. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Paradoxes of Modernization
Author: . Ed(s): Margetts, Helen; 6, Perri; Hood, Christopher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication year: 2010
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0199573549
ISBN 13: 9780199573547

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Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford, before which she was Director of the School of Public Policy at UCL. A political scientist specialising in politics and government on the Internet, she has authored and co-authored a wide range of books and articles as well as a series of policy reports for the National Audit Office, including (with Patrick Dunleavy and others) Digital-era Governance (Oxford University Press, 2006); (with Christopher Hood) Tools of Government in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); and Government on the Internet (a joint LSE-OII study for the NAO, 2007). She is editor of the new journal Policy and Internet (Berkeley Electronic Press) and is currently researching on-line collective action.

Perri 6 is Professor of Social Policy in the Graduate School of the College of Business, Law and Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University. His recent books include Institutional Dynamics of Culture (ed. with G Mars, Ashgate, 2008), Public Emotions (ed. with S Radstone, C Squire, and A Treacher, Palgrave, 2007), Beyond Delivery (with E Peck, Palgrave, 2006), Managing Networks of Twenty First Century Organisations (with N Goodwin, E Peck, and T Freeman, Palgrave, 2006) and E-governance (Palgrave, 2004). He has published widely on issues such as joined-up government, consumer choice in public services, privacy and data protection, and social networks in journals such as Political Studies, Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. He is currently researching how different styles of political judgment result in decisions that produce different types of unintended consequences.

Christopher Hood has been Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford since 2001 and was Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council Public Services Research Programme from 2004 to 2010. Before that he held chairs at the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, New South Wales, and was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow for 14 years. His publications include The Limits of Administration (Wiley, 1976), The Tools of Government (Macmillan, 1983, updated as The Tools of Government in the Digital Age, 2007, with Helen Margetts), The Art of the State (OUP, 1998) and The Politics of Public Service Bargains (OUP, 2006, with Martin Lodge). He is currently working on a book on the politics of blame-avoidance.

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