The Absurdity of Bureaucracy
Subtitle: How Implementation Works
Edition: Revidierte Dissertation
Series: Political and administrative ethnography
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 31 May 2017
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781526101358
Subjects: Bureaucracy
Other titles: Absurdity and the Sensible Decision - implementation of Danish labour market policy
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Labor days.; title: Introduction: the absurdity of bureaucracy.; title: 1 Anticipations; title: Portrait 1: "making a difference"; title: Portrait 2: the perfect plan; title: Analysis: a container of discrete agendas.; title: 2 Mutations; title: Portrait 3: the trial mutates; title: Portrait 4: satisfying needs; title: Analysis: vectors of concern. 3 Multiplications; title: Portrait 5: the purpose multiplies; title: Portrait 6: the productivity of controversy; title: Analysis: absurdity is a perspective that appreciates the sum-total. 4 The quest for meaning; title: Portrait 7: "bending" the rules and agreements; title: Portrait 8: the end of meaning; title: Analysis: they rebel, they do not resist.; title: 5 How implementation works.; title: Epilogue: bureaucracy choose your own adventure