Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform

by Perri 6, Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood

This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail?

Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by 'modernization' and 'unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more general intellectual and social trends. It presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199573549
• ISBN13: 9780199573547
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"