How Government Experts Self-Sabotage
Title | How Government Experts Self-Sabotage PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Gerblinger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-12-08 |
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ISBN | 9781760465414 |
After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore? Instead of lamenting a demise of expertise, Christiane Gerblinger asks: does the expert advice of policy officials feature characteristics that invite its government audience to overlook or misread it? To answer this question, Gerblinger critically examines official policy advice and finds the language of the rebuffed: government experts reluctant to disclose what they know so as to accommodate political circumstances. She argues that this language evades stable meaning and diminishes the democratic right of citizens to scrutinise the work of government.
How Government Experts Self-Sabotage
Title | How Government Experts Self-Sabotage PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Gerblinger |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2022-12-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1760465429 |
After official policy advice to governments is publicly released, governments are often accused of ignoring or rejecting their experts. Commonly represented as politicisation, this depiction is superficial. Digging deeper, is there something about the official advice itself that makes it easy to ignore? Instead of lamenting a demise of expertise, Christiane Gerblinger asks: does the expert advice of policy officials feature characteristics that invite its government audience to overlook or misread it? To answer this question, Gerblinger critically examines official policy advice and finds the language of the rebuffed: government experts reluctant to disclose what they know so as to accommodate political circumstances. She argues that this language evades stable meaning and diminishes the democratic right of citizens to scrutinise the work of government.
Adapting for Inertia
Title | Adapting for Inertia PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Douglas |
Publisher | ANU Press |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1760466107 |
Despite much learning and research over many decades, large ICT software projects have continued to experience poor outcomes or fallen short of original expectations—some spectacularly so. This is the case in the Australian and New Zealand public sectors, even though these projects operate within historically developed institutional frameworks that provide the rules, guidelines and controls, and aim to consistently improve outcomes. Something is amiss. In Adapting for Inertia, Grant Douglas questions the effectiveness of these institutional frameworks in governing large ICT software projects in the Australian and New Zealand public sectors. He also gauges the perspectives of a large number of actors in projects in both sectors and examines two case studies in detail. The main narrative to emerge is that the institutional frameworks are in a state of inertia: they are failing to adapt, owing to various institutional factors—all of which have public policy implications. Sadly, Douglas finds, this inertia is likely to continue. If there is difficulty in changing the capacity to govern, he proposes, policymakers should look to change the nature of what is to be governed.
The Rotarian
Title | The Rotarian PDF eBook |
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Pages | 72 |
Release | 1941-07 |
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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
The Rotarian
Title | The Rotarian PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 1941-07 |
Genre | |
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Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
The Death of Expertise
Title | The Death of Expertise PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Nichols |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0197763839 |
"In the early 1990s, a small group of "AIDS denialists," including a University of California professor named Peter Duesberg, argued against virtually the entire medical establishment's consensus that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Science thrives on such counterintuitive challenges, but there was no evidence for Duesberg's beliefs, which turned out to be baseless. Once researchers found HIV, doctors and public health officials were able to save countless lives through measures aimed at preventing its transmission"--
Myths, Illusions, and Peace
Title | Myths, Illusions, and Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Ross |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780670020898 |
Discusses the possible reasons behind the failure to achieve peace in the Middle East, focusing on the misguided efforts made by the United States and the common fallacies about the politics of the region.