RHODES, R.A.W

The governance narrative : key findings and lessons from the ESRC`s whitehall programme - R.A.W. Rhodes, 2000

This article provides a personal interpretation of the key finding s of the Economic and Social Research Council`s Whitehall Programme. I tell the distinctive story of `governance` - and fragmentation, networks, unintended consequences and diplomacy - challenging the dominant, managerial account of change in British government since 1979. I present a view of the world in which networks rival markets and bureaucracy as ways of allocating resources and co-ordinating policy and its implementation