Institutional Memory as Storytelling : How Networked Government Remembers Paperback / softback
by Jack (University of Southampton) Corbett, Dennis (University of Cambridge) Christian Grube, Heather (University of Tasmania) Caroline Lovell, Rodney (University of New South Wales, Sydney) James Scott
Part of the Elements in Public and Nonprofit Administration series
Paperback / softback
Description
How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures.
There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task.
This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories.
They reside with people and are thus dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated polity.
Drawing on four policy examples from four sectors (housing, energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable.
It is concluded that the current conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern collaborative governance.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/12/2020
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- ISBN:9781108748001
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/12/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108748001
