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

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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, te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roe, Emery (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Infrastructure (Economics) > Management.
Policy sciences > Decision making.
Reliability (Engineering)
Risk management.
Sciences de la politique > Prise de décision.
Fiabilité.
Gestion du risque.
risk management.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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