Making the Most of Mess : Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges / Emery Roe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roe, Emery, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and failures offer models for policymakers and other professionals to manage the messes they face. Throughout, Roe focuses on the global financial mess of 2008 and its ongoing aftermath, showing how mismanagement has allowed it to morph into other national and international messes. More effective management is still possible for this and many other policy messes but that requires better recognition of patterns and formulation of scenarios, as well as the ability to translate pattern and scenario into reliability.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

ONE. Introducing Policy Messes, Management, and Their Managers

TWO. When Reliability Is Mess Management

THREE. The Wider Framework for Managing Mess Reliably: Hubs, Skills, and the Domain of Competence

FOUR. Bad Mess Management

FIVE. Good Mess Management

SIX. Societal Challenges

SEVEN. Professional Challenges

EIGHT. How We Know That the Policy Mess Is Managed Better

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478091615

1478091614

OCLC:

1250396631