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Institutional memory as storytelling: how networked government remembers
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Corbett, J and Grube, DC and Lovell, H and Scott, RJ, Institutional memory as storytelling: how networked government remembers, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 78. ISBN 978-1-108-74800-1 (2020) [Authored Research Book]
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DOI: doi:10.1017/9781108780001
Abstract
How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is
that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded
files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship
that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task.
This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are
essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus
dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated
polity. Drawing on four policy examples from four sectors (housing,
energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia
and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way
institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and
normatively desirable. It is concluded that the current
conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to
fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern
collaborative governance.
Item Details
Item Type: | Authored Research Book |
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Keywords: | policy change, institutional memory, narrative, networked governance, policy learning, storytelling |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Policy and administration |
Research Field: | Public policy |
Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
Objective Group: | Management and productivity |
Objective Field: | Public sector productivity |
UTAS Author: | Lovell, H (Professor Heather Lovell) |
ID Code: | 142283 |
Year Published: | 2020 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2021-01-05 |
Last Modified: | 2021-02-04 |
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