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The Environmental Protection Agency
Robert Mcmahon
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Description for The Environmental Protection Agency
Hardcover. This text examines the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and theEnvironment Agency for Englandand Wales and presents an account of the centrality of motivation to undertanding the relative achievements of two green bureaucracies in particular, and of public-sector organizations in general. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; RNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural identifications have been destroyed, regardless of the ingenuity of the institutional form adopted. The absence of such bureaucratic mission results in green bureaucracies that are likely to fail in the pursuit of organisational goals. Examining motivations shows why cultural identifications within ... Read more
By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural identifications have been destroyed, regardless of the ingenuity of the institutional form adopted. The absence of such bureaucratic mission results in green bureaucracies that are likely to fail in the pursuit of organisational goals. Examining motivations shows why cultural identifications within ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903900697
SKU
V9781903900697
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Ref
99-20
About Robert Mcmahon
Robert McMahon is Lecturer in Politics at St John's College, Oxford. He holds an MA and M.Phil. from New College, Oxford and a DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford. Rob worked as a Policy Analyst at HM Treasury from 1999 to 2001 dealing with transport spending and then poverty analysis. Rob teaches courses on US and UK government, political sociology and ... Read more
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