Governance in Turbulent Times

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Foreign Legal Systems, Politics, History & Theory
Cover of the book Governance in Turbulent Times by , OUP Oxford
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: ISBN: 9780192508881
Publisher: OUP Oxford Publication: December 6, 2016
Imprint: OUP Oxford Language: English
Author:
ISBN: 9780192508881
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication: December 6, 2016
Imprint: OUP Oxford
Language: English

What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems tackle before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty in their systems and environments? These are some of the big questions of our time. Governance in turbulent times may serve as a stress-test of well-known ways of governing in the 21st century. Governance in Turbulent Times discusses this pertinent challenge and suggests how governments and organizations cope with and live with turbulence. The book explores how organizations and institutions respond to precipitous, conflicting, and novel-in short, turbulent-governance challenges. This book is a comprehensive and ground-breaking endeavor to understand how governance systems respond to turbulent challenges, and how turbulent times provide excellent opportunities to investigate the sustainability of governance systems. The book illustrates how politics, administrative scale and complexity, uncertainty, and time constraints can collide to produce turbulence. Building on prior work in organization theory and political science, we argue that turbulence refers to four properties related to the interaction of demands for action: variability, consistency, expectation, and unpredictability. Turbulence occurs where the interaction of demands is experienced as highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected, and/or unpredictable.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

What are the conditions for political development and decay, and the likelihood of sustained political order? What are the limits of established rule as we know it? How much stress can systems tackle before they reach some kind of limit? How do governments tackle enduring ambiguity and uncertainty in their systems and environments? These are some of the big questions of our time. Governance in turbulent times may serve as a stress-test of well-known ways of governing in the 21st century. Governance in Turbulent Times discusses this pertinent challenge and suggests how governments and organizations cope with and live with turbulence. The book explores how organizations and institutions respond to precipitous, conflicting, and novel-in short, turbulent-governance challenges. This book is a comprehensive and ground-breaking endeavor to understand how governance systems respond to turbulent challenges, and how turbulent times provide excellent opportunities to investigate the sustainability of governance systems. The book illustrates how politics, administrative scale and complexity, uncertainty, and time constraints can collide to produce turbulence. Building on prior work in organization theory and political science, we argue that turbulence refers to four properties related to the interaction of demands for action: variability, consistency, expectation, and unpredictability. Turbulence occurs where the interaction of demands is experienced as highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected, and/or unpredictable.

More books from OUP Oxford

Cover of the book Modal Logic as Metaphysics by
Cover of the book Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook by
Cover of the book Eyes to See by
Cover of the book Unperfect Histories by
Cover of the book Repetition and Identity by
Cover of the book A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences by
Cover of the book Greek Tragedy on the Move by
Cover of the book Thirty Years of Economic Policy by
Cover of the book Joseph Butler: Fifteen Sermons and other writings on ethics by
Cover of the book The Production of Knowledge by
Cover of the book International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons by
Cover of the book The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction by
Cover of the book Rhetoric and The Rule of Law by
Cover of the book Kingdom, Civitas, and County by
Cover of the book A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy