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Multi-Level or Post-Democratic

by WUV

Over the last quarter of a century or so we have witnessed systematic attempts - influenced by public choice theory, and fuelled by popular resentment against bureaucratic power - to dismantle bureaucracies and replace them with organizational forms that are more 'flexible', more 'accountable', more 'responsive', more 'entrepreneurial', less 'hierarchical', and 'flatter'. However, in the meantime we also have a growing literature demonstrating that the measures designed to counter the dysfunctions of bureaucracy in general, and of the state in particular, themselves have problematic side-effects. The tightening of mechanisms of control designed to deliver accountability are said: • to corrode trust and solidarity within - and beyond - organizations;• to lead to a decline of the spirit of public service and the growing subordination of procedural to political concerns;• to encourage new and increasingly centralized and unconstrained governance styles;• are paradoxically themselves n

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Episodes

  1. Podcast Post-Demokratie: Eine (Ent)-Warnung

    Dr. Armin Wolf (ORF)

  2. Medien, Politik und Demokratie

    Prof.in Dr.in Sigrid Baringhorst (Universität Siegen)

  3. Medien, Politik und Demokratie

    Dr. Erhard Busek (…VP)

  4. Medien, Politik und Demokratie

    DI Till Heyer-Stuffer(Bündnis 90/Die Grünen - Berlin/Universität Potsdam)

  5. Maximale Partizipation und minimalen Voraussetzungen? Ein Fallbeispiel

    Dr. Mag. Pier-Paolo Pasqualoni und Dr.in Mag.a Helga Treichl(NODE Project Team, Soziologie/UniversitŠt Innsbruck)

  6. Without affection or enthusiasm: problems of attachmentand involvement in ÔresponsiveÕ public management

    Prof. Paul du Gay (CRESC Manchester/Warwick Business School)

  7. Critical consumption

    Prof. Roberta Sassatelli (Sociology/University of Milan)

  8. Consumption and citizenship: strained relations and sceptical subjects

    Prof. John Clarke (Social Policy/Open University)

  9. Governance and Impossibilism

    Prof. Karel Williams (CRESC/University of Manchester)

  10. Free actors, more rules

    Prof. Patrick le Gals (CNRS/Science Po, University of Paris)Prof. Alan Scott (Sociology, University of Innsbruck)

  11. Urban governance and participation

    Prof. Alan Harding (IPEG/University of Manchester)

  12. Beyond what? The controversial past, ambivalent present and uncertain future of participatory governance

    Prof. Lavinia Bifulco (Sociology/University of Milan Bicocca)

  13. Contemporary political leadership

    Prof. Mauro Barisione(Social and political sciences/University of Milan)

  14. Governance and association Prof. Antonino Palumbo

    Prof. Antonino Palumbo(Political science/University of Palermo)

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Over the last quarter of a century or so we have witnessed systematic attempts - influenced by public choice theory, and fuelled by popular resentment against bureaucratic power - to dismantle bureaucracies and replace them with organizational forms that are more 'flexible', more 'accountable', more 'responsive', more 'entrepreneurial', less 'hierarchical', and 'flatter'. However, in the meantime we also have a growing literature demonstrating that the measures designed to counter the dysfunctions of bureaucracy in general, and of the state in particular, themselves have problematic side-effects. The tightening of mechanisms of control designed to deliver accountability are said: • to corrode trust and solidarity within - and beyond - organizations;• to lead to a decline of the spirit of public service and the growing subordination of procedural to political concerns;• to encourage new and increasingly centralized and unconstrained governance styles;• are paradoxically themselves n

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