...The introduction lays out the book’s empirical interest (the repercussions of policy), the analytical focus (decision-making) and its theoretical aim (to theorize the non-linear aspect of implementation by addressing it through the lens of the absurd). This introduction firmly places the book...

...Chapter 2 portrays Active – Back Sooner as ‘it’ starts to disintegrate. It shows how upon arrival in one of the municipal units charged with the implementation of the trial, the original project design is undermined and recreated by the multiple local concerns to which it must...

...The chapter returns to the questions raised in the beginning of the book: how might we understand the self-generative character of bureaucracy? And what might we learn about how implementation works in general based on a discussion of this specific ethnographic study? Building on the insights...

...The absurdity of bureaucracy offers an ethnographic portrayal of an attempt to make and implement evidence-based policy set in the Danish labour market system in 2009. It departs from the author’s puzzlement that the civil servants she met during her research would maintain...

... of the area's mining and metallurgical complex — with an emphasis on the Norilsk Nickel combines — and the role of various actors in the implementation of Russia's international obligations related to air pollution control. It reviews implementation performance and target compliance mainly with reference...

...This chapter deepens the investigation of relations between Labour’s leadership, business and the unions (covered in Chapter 9) and also adds to the investigation of management of the PLP (covered in Chapter 13) It is an important case study of the implementation of party policy over union...

...This chapter focuses on the so-called ‘new’ instruments designed to improve implementation effectiveness of European Union (EU) environmental policies, discussing the characteristics and effects of the new environmental policy instruments and their limited implementation success. It also looks...

... Labor Market Authority Department of Employment Labor Market Commission Arbejdsmarkedskommissionen Rambøll Management Barfod Line Red Green Alliance representative meaningfulness Minister of Employment “it” Mosse David absurdity—cases of casework meaninglessness Implementation Decision...

... the effectiveness of the EU's implementation process in terms of both the wider Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) sphere and in relation to both specific case studies, namely police co-operation and counter terrorism. Al Qaeda Bin Laden Osama Bush George W Rice Condoleezza Annan Kofi Blair Tony North Atlantic...

...This chapter sums up the major findings of the case studies in fisheries management, nuclear safety, and air pollution control. The primary focus is on the ‘implementation activities’ carried out in each case: what has been done to implement the various commitments, and how can the success...

...This chapter evaluates the effectiveness of the implementation of European Union (EU) environmental policy. It presents the institutional framework in which the implementation of European policies takes place. The chapter discusses some broad trends related to the actual degree of implementation...

...This book is a systematic study that considers how international environmental agreements are transformed into political action in Russia, using three case studies on the implementation process in the fields of fisheries management, nuclear safety, and air pollution control. It develops the social...

...This chapter examines the legislative output of the European Union in terms of the Third Pillar and in relation to key legislative and agency developments in counter-terrorism and police co-operation. It considers the developing implementation gap which could undermine the European Union's claims...

..., the Convention had 161 States' parties. The text incorporates a preamble of twelve paragraphs, seven substantive articles (Part I of the Convention), a further nine articles addressing implementation (Part II) and nine articles on entry into force, denunciation, revision, reservations, etc. (Part III...

...This chapter provides more detail on the theoretical debate about the implementation of international environmental agreements, leading up to a more individualised approach to the issues under investigation here. The first section seeks to place the implementation literature in a wider theoretical...

...This chapter addresses the Russian implementation of international agreements within fisheries management. It considers how Russian authorities since the break-up of the Soviet Union have implemented their international obligations in the fisheries sector of the country's northwestern region...

... concerns tend to be closely intertwined. In the area of nuclear safety, bureaucratic controversies have clearly hampered implementation. Moreover, foreign assistance has come to dominate the implementation of Russia's international nuclear safety commitments during the post-Soviet period. Some of the most...

... and the correspondence and reports 4 available in the archives, as well as the considerable body of Manchester School publications. Not surprisingly, being at the centre of a contentious circle, Gluckman found it to be one thing to plan, but another to implement, and still another to provide a full overview...

...This chapter examines the implementation effectiveness of the environmental policies of the European Union (EU) in Great Britain, France, Germany and Spain, introducing the selected policies and the institutional implications emerging from their implementation in these countries. It describes...