Decentering tradition : interpreting british government
By: BEVIR, Mark
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Contributor(s): RHODES, R.A.W.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2001Administration & Society 33, 2, p. 107-132Abstract: This article that the study of traditions is an integral part of the human sciences; it then concentrates on how to study traditions. First, authors outline a pragmatic approach to traditions. Next, they illustrate the case by analyzing three features of British government: public sector reform, Tratcherism, and joined-up governance. The authors seed to show that it is possible to decenter the idea of tradition and analyze traditions at several levels. Finaly, they discuss the problems posed when anayzing traditions at different levels of generality, including reifying traditions, essentialism, identifying traditions, and creating traditions
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This article that the study of traditions is an integral part of the human sciences; it then concentrates on how to study traditions. First, authors outline a pragmatic approach to traditions. Next, they illustrate the case by analyzing three features of British government: public sector reform, Tratcherism, and joined-up governance. The authors seed to show that it is possible to decenter the idea of tradition and analyze traditions at several levels. Finaly, they discuss the problems posed when anayzing traditions at different levels of generality, including reifying traditions, essentialism, identifying traditions, and creating traditions
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