Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past

by Christopher Pollitt

Book Overview

In this important new book, Christopher Pollitt, one of the leading researchers in public policy and management, argues that we are guilty of neglecting a fundamental dimension of both the practice and study of contemporary public policymaking and management: that of time.

Pollitt traces the character of, and the reasons for, this neglect in his wide-ranging study. He considers the theoretical options for addressing time in a more sophisticated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199237727
• ISBN13: 9780199237722
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"