Organizing Democracy : The Construction of Agency in Practice
Goran. Sundstrom
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cheltenham : : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (176 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Democracy, governance and the problem of the modern actor; Chapter 2: Organizing participation. Establishing a discourse of local democratic governance for young people in Sweden; Chapter 3: Completed responsibility? Delegation, organization and accountability in Swedish export of military equipment; Chapter 4: The use of democratic values in the ISO 26000 process on social responsibility; Chapter 5: Public purchasing of complex services. Balancing democratic and market values. - Chapter 6: In search of democracy. The process behind the Swedish forest-sector objectivesChapter 7: Democratic priority setting? Organizing multiple stakeholders to make decisions in the healthcare sector; Chapter 8: By a stretch of the imagination. Public involvement in nuclear waste management; Chapter 9: Democratic vlaues and the organizing of actors in governance structures; References; Index. - Argues that a number of organizational factors challenge the notion of agency assumed by a governance model. This work criticizes the governance model for resting on the rational myth and the assumption that democratic ideals can be translated to specified democratic values, which in turn can be adhered to by democratic agents.
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| Emner | Democracy and education.
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| ISBN | 9781848444287
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