Translating Agency Reform Rhetoric and Culture in Comparative Perspective

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ISBN: 9780230580725 | 0230580726
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Copyright: 5/15/2010

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Through comparative analysis this book examines and explains the official rhetoric of agency reform across consensus and adversarial political cultures. It traces the trajectory of talk about agency reform in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia and identifies the national styles of speaking that mediated the agency idea.

List of Tables	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. x
Setting the Scene	p. 1
Translating Agency Reform	p. 3
Introduction	p. 3
The purpose of the book and theoretical background	p. 4
Theoretical perspectives	p. 7
The selection of countries and role of comparison	p. 9
Defining agency talk	p. 12
The plan of the book	p. 14
Agency Reform: Tracing a Public Management Fashion	p. 16
Introduction	p. 16
The international agency story from solution to problem	p. 16
Agency reform initiatives in The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia	p. 20
The contours of Dutch agency reform	p. 20
The contours of Swedish agency reform	p. 24
The contours of Australian agency reform	p. 30
Conclusion	p. 38
Theory and Trajectories of Talk	p. 41
Theoretical Concepts and Tools: Rhetoric and Culture	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Agency talk and social construction	p. 44
The study of rhetoric	p. 45
The New Rhetoric	p. 46
Grid Group Cultural Theory: context and talk	p. 55
GGCT and the cultural flavour of public management talk	p. 58
Translating agency reform: putting rhetoric and culture together	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 64
The Trajectory of Agency Talk Across The Netherlands, Sweden and Australia	p. 65
Introduction	p. 65
The selection of official documents	p. 66
The trajectory of Dutch agency talk 1991-1998	p. 68
Dutch agency rhetoric: agencies as a unique and accountable alternative	p. 69
The cultural flavour of Dutch agency talk over time	p. 76
The trajectory of Swedish official agency talk 1983-1997	p. 80
Swedish agency rhetoric: agencies for democracy	p. 82
The cultural flavour of Swedish agency talk over time	p. 89
The trajectory of Australian agency talk 1997-2004	p. 94
Australian agency rhetoric: agencies for customer service	p. 95
The cultural flavour of Australian agency talk over time	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 107
Comparing and Explaining Agency Talk	p. 109
Comparing Official Agency Talk: National Speaking Styles and the Role of Cultural Context?	p. 111
Introduction	p. 111
Comparing rhetorical situations across high and low group political cultures	p. 112
Comparing rhetorical styles across high and low group political cultures	p. 116
National styles of speaking across high and low group political cultures	p. 126
Similarities in talk: a role for political culture and transnational stories?	p. 128
The correspondence between political culture and national styles of speaking	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 132
The Role of Culturally Flavoured Stories and their National Translations	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
Comparing common cultural flavours and their rhetorical styles	p. 136
Agency talk and an individualist rhetorical style	p. 136
Agency talk and a hierarchical rhetorical style	p. 139
Agency talk and an egalitarian rhetorical style	p. 143
Hood's predictions and the rhetorical elements of cultural world views in agency talk	p. 147
Shifts in the cultural flavour of agency talk: reactions of rhetoric or the rhetorical situation?	p. 150
The national limits of shifts in the cultural flavour of talk	p. 153
Translating fashionable agency stories	p. 155
Conclusion	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 159
Introduction	p. 159
National styles of speaking and fashionable management stories	p. 159
Theoretical contributions and evaluation	p. 163
Reflecting on public management knowledge	p. 166
Speaking persuasively in high and low group political cultures	p. 169
Analysing the Documents	p. 170
Selection of Documents	p. 173
References	p. 176
Index	p. 185
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