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| fixed length control field |
01721 a2200181 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781108431590 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
352.375 |
| Item number |
BOS-M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Boswell, Christina |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Manufacturing Political Trust |
| Sub Title |
: Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press , |
| Year of publication |
2019. |
| Place of publication |
United Kingdom : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
228, pp. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Measurement and targets have been widely criticised as distorting policy and engendering gaming - yet they continue to be widely used in government. This book offers an original new account explaining the persistent appeal of performance measurement. It argues that targets have been adopted to address a crisis of trust in politics, through creating more robust mechanisms of accountability and monitoring. The book shows that such tools rarely have their intended effect. Through an in-depth analysis of UK targets on immigration and asylum since 2000, it shows that far from shoring up trust, targets have engendered cynicism and distrust in government. Moreover, they have encouraged intrusive forms of monitoring and reform in public administration, with damaging consequences for trust between politicians and civil servants. Despite these problems, performance measurement has now become embedded in techniques of public management. It has also become normalized as a way of framing policy problems and responses. Thus despite their acknowledged problems, targets are likely to retain their allure as techniques of political communication and governance. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Public administration--Evaluation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Political planning |
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| Topical Term |
Public administration |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Policy sciences--Methodology |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
