The Absurdity of Bureaucracy
How Implementation Works
$85.51
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2020
Summary
The absurdity of bureaucracy offers 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 absurdity and sense-making as lenses through which to explore the dynamic relationship between a policy and its effects, the book reclaims…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526150066 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526150069 |
| Author: | Nina Holm Vohnsen |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Imprint: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 299g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Political Ethnography |
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The Absurdity of Bureaucracy 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.’Halvard Vike, Ethnos
– .About The Author
Nina Holm Vohnsen
Nina Holm Vohnsen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University.
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