Paradoxes of modernization
Subtitle: unintended consequences of public policy reform
By: edited by Helen Margetts, Perri 6, Christopher Hood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199573547
Subjects: Policy sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: The drive to modernize :; title: a world of surprises?  -- Christopher Hood, Helen Margetts, and Perri 6; title: Modernization dreams and public policy reform  -- Helen Margetts; title: When forethought and outturn part :; title: types of unanticipated and unintended consequences  -- Perri 6; title: Ranking US public affairs educational programmes :; title: searching for quality, finding equilibrium?  -- H. George Frederickson and Edmund C. Stazyk; title: Et in Arcadia Ego :; title: from techno-utopia to cybercrime  -- Jeanette Hofmann; title: Happy surprises :; title: the development of the World Wide Web and the semantic web  -- Yorick Wilks; title: Addressing undernutrition in India :; title: do "rational" approaches work?  -- Devi Sridhar; title: Integration at any price :; title: the case of the NHS National Programme for Information Technology  -- Justin Keen; title: Post-Second World War British railways :; title: the unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention  -- Timothy Leunig; title: The paradox of performance-related pay systems :; title: why do we keep adopting them in the face of evidence that they fail to motivate?  -- David Marsden; title: What if public management reform actually works :; title: the paradoxical success of performance management in English local government  -- George Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, Nicolai Petrovsky; title: Modernization, balance, and variety -- Helen Margetts, Perri 6, and Christopher Hood.