Translating agency reform
Subtitle: rhetoric and culture in comparative perspective
By: Amanda Smullen.
Series: Public sector organizations
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780230580725
Subjects: Communication in public administration; Organizational change; Rhetoric
Description: "Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Agency Reform: Tracing a Public Management Fashion; title: Theoretical Concepts and Tools: Rhetoric and Culture; title: The Trajectories of Official Agency Talk; title: Comparing Official Agency Talk: National Styles of Speaking and the Role of Cultural Context?; title: The Role of Culturally Flavoured Stories and their National Translation; title: Conclusion.