{"product_id":"the-absurdity-of-bureaucracy-how-implementation-works-9781526101341","title":"The Absurdity of Bureaucracy: How Implementation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe absurdity of bureaucracy \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a humorous ethnographic account of policy implementation set in contemporary Danish bureaucracy. Taking the reader deep into the hallways of governmental administration and municipal caseworkers’ offices, the book sets out to explore what characterizes policy implementation as a mode of human agency. Using the notions of \u003ci\u003eabsurdity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003esense-making\u003c\/i\u003e as lenses through which to explore the dynamic relationship between a policy and its effects, the book reclaims ‘implementation studies’ for the qualitative sciences and emphasizes the existential dilemma that any policymaker and implementer must confront. Following step-by-step the planning and implementation of the randomized controlled trial, \u003ci\u003eActive – Back Sooner,\u003c\/i\u003e the book sets out to show that ‘going wrong’ is not a question of implementation failure but is in fact the only way in which implementation may happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Absurdity of Bureaucracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and valuable work. The book’s main quality is its extraordinary ethnographic richness. It is quite unique in its depth, scope and ethnographic sensitivity. [...] An important and welcomed contribution to the anthropological study of bureaucracy and policy.'\u003cbr\u003eHalvard Vike, \u003ci\u003eEthnos    \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries editor’s preface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eReading guide\u003cbr\u003eCentral people, documents, and organizations\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: Labor days \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: the absurdity of bureaucracy \u003cbr\u003e1 Anticipations \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 1: “making a difference” \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 2: the perfect plan \u003cbr\u003e Analysis: a container of discrete agendas\u003cbr\u003e2 Mutations \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 3: the trial mutates \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 4: satisfying needs \u003cbr\u003e Analysis: vectors of concern \u003cbr\u003e3 Multiplications \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 5: the purpose multiplies \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 6: the productivity of controversy \u003cbr\u003e Analysis: absurdity is a perspective that appreciates the sum-total \u003cbr\u003e4 The quest for meaning \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 7: “bending” the rules and agreements \u003cbr\u003e Portrait 8: the end of meaning\u003cbr\u003e Analysis: they rebel, they do not resist \u003cbr\u003e5 How implementation works \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: bureaucracy—choose your own adventure \u003cbr\u003eAppendix: data, position, method\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040974766423,"sku":"9781526101341","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526101341.jpg?v=1750948459","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-absurdity-of-bureaucracy-how-implementation-works-9781526101341","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}