Performing The State
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Performing The State
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Author : Paul Henman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-22
Performing The State written by Paul Henman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-22 with Social Science categories.
Performance measurement is now a key management tool used by government to assess and enhance public services. It is also used as a tool for public sector transparency and accountability. Despite these noble objectives, performance measurement can also generate counterproductive and sometimes paradoxical outcomes. This book innovatively conceptualises performance measurement as a ‘policy instrument’. Such an approach necessarily invites careful and critical examination of instances of the formation, application and contestation of particular performance measurement regimes, the tools used to measure performance, the way in which performance data is produced and used, and the complex dynamics between professionals, managers and service users that arise from these practices. The book provides detailed empirical examples of performance measurement in the delivery of health, schooling and child welfare services, as well as the problematics of assessing national wellbeing. Instead of a form of scientific and rational management, performance measurement is revealed as an intrinsically contested, socio-politically charged and value laden practice. The book concludes that to succeed in delivering authentic performance improvements public sector managers must be aware of these complex, paradoxical dynamics and the circumstances that make performance measurement perform. This book was originally published as a special issue of Policy Studies.
Paper Performance And The State
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Author : Farhat Hasan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-31
Paper Performance And The State written by Farhat Hasan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-31 with History categories.
This book explores the changing socio–cultural world in early modern South Asia, and locates the agency of the Mughal state therein. The development of literacy and new forms of engagement between literacy and performance prompted the opening up of new spaces of social communication, and led to the development of a performative (and somatic) public sphere in South Asia. The work highlights the significance of legal spaces, along with the markets and coffeehouses, in shaping the emergent public sphere. While defending the case for legal pluralism, it argues that the Mughal state endured and enhanced the diversity in the legal order. Focusing on the socially embedded attributes of the state, it looks at how the state's relations with the local powers impinged on, and reproduced community identities, identity conflicts, legal pluralism, property relations, and different forms of social communication.
Performing The Iranian State
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Author : Staci Gem Scheiwiller
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2014-11-01
Performing The Iranian State written by Staci Gem Scheiwiller and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-01 with Performing Arts categories.
This book discusses what it means to “perform the State,” what this action means in relation to the country of Iran and how these various performances are represented. The concept of the “State” as a modern phenomenon has had a powerful impact on the formation of the individual and collective, as well as on determining how political entities are perceived in their interactions with one another in the current global arena.
Measuring Performance Among State Dots
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: AASHTO
Release Date : 2006
Measuring Performance Among State Dots written by and has been published by AASHTO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
Performing Place Practising Memories
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Author : Rosita Henry
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Performing Place Practising Memories written by Rosita Henry and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Social Science categories.
During the 1970s a wave of ‘counter-culture’ people moved into rural communities in many parts of Australia. This study focuses in particular on the town of Kuranda in North Queensland and the relationship between the settlers and the local Aboriginal population, concentrating on a number of linked social dramas that portrayed the use of both public and private space. Through their public performances and in their everyday spatial encounters, these people resisted the bureaucratic state but, in the process, they also contributed to the cultivation and propagation of state effects.
Transit System Performance And State Transit Policy
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Author : John R. Duffe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Transit System Performance And State Transit Policy written by John R. Duffe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Local transit categories.
Profile Of State Performance In The Aid To Families With Dependent Children Program Fy 1982 1983
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Profile Of State Performance In The Aid To Families With Dependent Children Program Fy 1982 1983 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Child welfare categories.
Comparing State Dots Construction Project Cost And Schedule Performance 28 Best Practices From 9 States
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language : en
Publisher: AASHTO
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Comparing State Dots Construction Project Cost And Schedule Performance 28 Best Practices From 9 States written by and has been published by AASHTO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Performative State
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Author : Iza Yue Ding
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-15
The Performative State written by Iza Yue Ding and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with History categories.
What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governance—performative governance. Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how China's environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving "performance legitimacy" by delivering material improvements, the state can shape public opinion through the theatrical performance of goodwill and sincere effort. The Performative State also explains when performative governance fails at impressing its audience and when governance becomes less performative and more substantive. Ding focuses on Chinese evidence but her theory travels: comparisons with Vietnam and the United States show that all states, democratic and authoritarian alike, engage in performative governance.
Ethnographies Of The State In Central Asia
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Author : Madeleine Reeves
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Ethnographies Of The State In Central Asia written by Madeleine Reeves and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with History categories.
With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational, the mundane to the spectacular, to provide a unique perspective on how politics is performed in everyday life.