- Author
- Year
- 2010
- Title
- Translating agency reform: rhetoric and culture in comparative perspective
- Number of pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan
- ISBN
- 9780230580725
- Serie
- Public sector organizations
- Document type
- Book
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
- 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.
- Language
- English
- Permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.338102
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