Translating agency reform: rhetoric and culture in comparative perspective

Authors
  • A. Smullen
Publication date 2010
ISBN
  • 9780230580725
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9780230289703
Series Public sector organizations
Number of pages 191
Publisher Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - 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.
Document type Book
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289703 (Final published version)
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