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作者：Gains, Francesca
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：This article celebrates Rod Rhodes' use of ethnography to study political elites 'up close and personal'. Initially Rhodes' work is contextualized within the development of political ethnography more generally, before his ethnographies of 'Everyday life in a Ministry' are reviewed, illustrating the potential of ethnography to research policy-making elites. This review highlights epistemological and ontological questions which link to criticism of Rhodes' work as taking an anti-foundational sta...
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作者：Bellamy, Christine
作者单位：Nottingham Trent University
摘要：This article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist - reflecting its apparent hollowing-out - but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the UK was ever strongly filled-in. It also suggest...
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作者：Bevir, Mark
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：I'll tell you a story About Jack a Nory, And now my story's begun; I'll tell you another Of Jack and his brother, And now my story is done. [Anon] A great writer of fiction both creates a new, unique, individual world - through acts of imagination, through language that feels inevitable, through commanding forms - and responds to a world, the world the writer shares with other people but that is unknown or miss-known by still more people, confined in their worlds. Call that history, society, w...
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作者：Raadschelders, Jos C. N.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The study of public administration in the United States is large in terms of the number of academic programmes, the range of journal publications, and the number of scholars. Its scholarship attracts attention from all over the globe. At the same time it is a public administration that is clearly embedded in a specific national culture, just as anywhere else. Three of the main challenges include the strong increase of quantitative-statistical methods, the decline of practitioner authors, and s...
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作者：Wanna, John; Weller, Patrick
作者单位：Australian National University; Griffith University
摘要：Rod Rhodes spent 25 years as the Editor of Public Administration before he retired from that role at the end of 2010. These essays in his honour are intended to celebrate the achievement of those 25 years and reflect on his contribution to the worlds of public administration and political science. Rod has now consolidated the standing of the journal as one of the most significant locations for work on public administration. At the same time, over his career, he has prodded and probed, challeng...
