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We review theory and research suggesting that over a period of several decades, a series of policies and structures emerged as potent forms of symbolic management as the agency logic of governance became institutionalized in the financial community.
3 mar 2017 · The synoptic model provided symbolic reassurance that the values of independence and objectivity were untouched by the auditors’ new role in policy evaluation. It provided a “rational fiction” ( Citation McNamara, 2002 ) for securing legitimacy in public life.
A basic economic principle is that any policy that is good for society as a whole can be made to be good for everyone in society, even if the policy creates winners and losers. It requires only that the winners be taxed just a bit to compensate the losers—and everyone is better off.
1. Introduction. The post-war era has witnessed the rapid transformation of the present democratic welfare states. Large scale industrial production and delivery of public services have replaced an economy largely characterized by small scale private production of goods.
So, by a symbolic economic policy action, we mean a quasi- intervention with a meaning that points far beyond the action itself, in the case of which the deeper sense (the true and proper content) makes the point.
the symbolic role of the synoptic-rational model in politics today: how it constitutes a tool for (some) independent bureaucracies to demonstrate their conformity to rational rules, enhance the credibility of their decisions and thus
20 lut 2020 · In short, according to her, symbolic policies say things but do not do things: they are observations and matters of fact, without real outputs; they are free of charge, financially and administratively; they have no effects on the general allocation of resources; and they do not give rise to the creation of “constituencies” (Pierson 1993 ...
