Authoritative Governance
Policy Making in the Age of Mediatization
(Sprache: Englisch)
One of the world's leading analysts of public policy offers a radical new interpretation of governance and authority in a media-driven age.
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One of the world's leading analysts of public policy offers a radical new interpretation of governance and authority in a media-driven age.
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The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of 'dumbing down': the privileging of style over content. In this provocative new book, Maarten Hajer takes issue with the 'dumbing down' thesis both on theoretical and empirical grounds. He aims to show how authoritative governance remains possible in crisis-driven circumstances and a highly 'mediatised' world. The book elaborates a communicative understanding of authority, which, the author argues, can create a new basis for authoritative governance in a world marked by political and institutional fragmentation. Extending his discourse-analytical framework, Hajer uses both discursive and dramaturgical methods to study policy makers in their struggle for authority. Three detailed case studies - the plans to rebuild Ground Zero, the aftermath of the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, and the recent role of the British Food Standards Agency - provide a wealth of detail of the dynamics of authority in today's mediatised polity and bring out the peculiar role that crises now play.
The argument of the book is that in the age of mediatization governance needs to be 'performed'. Hajer describes a genuinely new authoritative governance that breaks with exisiting interpretations. He demonstrates new ways in which the traditional government of standing institutions and notions of network governance can be combined in actively creating relations with a variety of publics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Authoritative Governance “
- 1: Maarten Hajer: The Authority Problem of Governance
- 2: Maarten Hajer: A Framework for Analysis
- 3: Maarten Hajer with Justus Uitermark: Performing Authority after the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh
- 4: Maarten Hajer: Contested Authority in Rebuilding Ground Zero
- 5: Maarten Hajer with David Laws and Wytske Versteeg: Authority through Deliberative Governance: the British Food Standards Agency in Action
- 6: Maarten Hajer: The Paradox of Authority in a Mediatized Politics
Autoren-Porträt von Maarten A. Hajer
Maarten Hajer is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is author of the celebrated The Politics of Environmental Discourse - Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Oxford UP, 1995). Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Maarten A. Hajer
- 2009, 220 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019928167X
- ISBN-13: 9780199281671
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Maarten Hajer's stories of politicians as performers enacting dramas that imbue governance with meaning open novel and exciting ways of understanding how authoritative governance is possible. Professor Rod Rhodes, University of Tasmania
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