Christina Boswell

Manufacturing Political Trust

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Produktbeschreibung

An original account exploring the use of targets and performance measurement as a response to the crisis of political trust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421201
• ISBN-10: 1108421202
• Artikelnr.: 49392079

Autorenporträt

Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research (Cambridge, 2009). Christina is currently leading a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project entitled 'Seeing Illegal Immigrants: State Monitoring and Political Rationality', which explores how public authorities in France, Germany and the UK have constructed and monitored irregular migrants since the 1960s.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Performance measurement and the production of trust
2. The problem of political trust
3. The double life of targets
4. Monitoring public administration
5. Information and trust
6. Public trust in targets
7. Targets and issue definition
8. After performance measurement?