Add to ORKGWhy do public professionals resist policy changes? In this book Lars Tummers argues that we can use the concept of policy alienation - a “general cognitive state of psychological disconnection from a policy” that professionals can feel - to understand why. Case studies cover the implementation of new health policies in the Netherlands and discuss the factors that influence whether policies are resisted. Julián López-Murcia finds the policy alienation concept to be a significant contribution to debates regarding the organization of public services
Abstract: This paper contributes in two ways to our understanding of the pressures public profession...
Review of Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy, by Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson & An...
textabstractAt the moment, there is an intense debate going on concerning professionals and professi...
Why do public professionals resist policy changes? In this book Lars Tummers argues that we can use ...
Currently, there is an intense debate on the pressures public professionals face in service delivery...
Nowadays, many public policies focus on economic values, such as efficiency and client choice. Publi...
Dave O’Brien opens up the black box of policy making in this diverse collection of essays for the ac...
Policies can fail when frontline staff feel they have limited influence on policy implementation (po...
Miller, K. J., & McTavish, D. (2013). Making and Managing Public Policy. Routledge 
Paul Caruana-Galizia finds a passionately written account of the problems within social policy, but ...
Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complai...
textabstractNowadays, many public professionals face identification problems towards public policies...
The practice of public service trudges ahead through a tempestuous moment in world history. The plac...
If you are interested in public management, and finding a way to make sense of theacademic discourse...
Neoliberal reforms have both revealed and effected a radical shift in government thinking about soci...
Abstract: This paper contributes in two ways to our understanding of the pressures public profession...
Review of Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy, by Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson & An...
textabstractAt the moment, there is an intense debate going on concerning professionals and professi...
Why do public professionals resist policy changes? In this book Lars Tummers argues that we can use ...
Currently, there is an intense debate on the pressures public professionals face in service delivery...
Nowadays, many public policies focus on economic values, such as efficiency and client choice. Publi...
Dave O’Brien opens up the black box of policy making in this diverse collection of essays for the ac...
Policies can fail when frontline staff feel they have limited influence on policy implementation (po...
Miller, K. J., & McTavish, D. (2013). Making and Managing Public Policy. Routledge 
Paul Caruana-Galizia finds a passionately written account of the problems within social policy, but ...
Over fifty years ago, Albert Hirschman argued that dissatisfied consumers could either voice complai...
textabstractNowadays, many public professionals face identification problems towards public policies...
The practice of public service trudges ahead through a tempestuous moment in world history. The plac...
If you are interested in public management, and finding a way to make sense of theacademic discourse...
Neoliberal reforms have both revealed and effected a radical shift in government thinking about soci...
Abstract: This paper contributes in two ways to our understanding of the pressures public profession...
Review of Telling Tales: Living the Effects of Public Policy, by Sheila Neysmith, Kate Bezanson & An...
textabstractAt the moment, there is an intense debate going on concerning professionals and professi...