Perri Six
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3457074 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Perri Six |
| NOMBRES | Perri |
| APELLIDO | Six |
| FIRMA | SIX P |
| AFILIACIONES | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914
How does regulatory statehood develop from the regulatory work which governments have always done? This article challenges conventional views that regulatory statehood is achieved by transition to arm's length agencies and that it replaces court‐based enforcement or displaces legislatures in favor of less accountable executive power. To do so, we examine the major 19th‐century surge in development of micro‐economic regulatory statehood in Britain…
Robust, resilient, agile and improvisatory styles in policymaking
This theory development article employs neo-Durkheimian institutional theory to present a fresh understanding of policy styles in the policy process. Calls for resilient, robust, agile and improvisatory policymaking are not readily compatible with each other. Each of these styles carries risks and each generates anomalies. Each tends to decay over time. Governments should therefore expect risks of inconsistency and decay in policymaking shaped by…
How did international economic regulation survive the last period of deglobalization
As trade wars and protectionism again present severe challenges and obstructions to international economic regulatory organizations (IEROs), it is timely to ask how their predecessors survived the last deep deglobalization of the interwar years. This article presents a fresh neo‐Durkheimian institutional explanation. It highlights contrasting pathways to survival and bequest of IEROs in three fields of regulation – international infrastructure, c…
Why do states in conflict with each other also sustain resilient cooperation in international regulation? Britain and telegraphy, 1860s–1914
This article compares the explanatory power of five mainstream theories from International Relations, political science and public management in understanding why – when they are engaged in deepening conflict and tension and even preparations for wars – states might simultaneously sustain deepening cooperation in global regulatory bodies. Analysis of explanatory power focuses on trade-offs among five key methodological virtues, and on buffering a…
P urity and D anger
Among anthropologists, Purity and Danger is Mary Douglas's best‐known work, yet it is widely misunderstood. Its significance was in laying out a Durkheimian program for social science, in showing why understanding anomaly is methodologically critical, and in exploring ritual order as a causal mechanism. Douglas came to appreciate that the book had not carried her program through. Much of her subsequent work should be appreciated for having recast…
Opportunistic decision-making in government
The notion of opportunism is too often used loosely in policy and administrative research on executive decision-making: its various meanings are too rarely clearly distinguished. To make it useful for explanation, this article presents fresh concept formation work, clarifying the concept to recognize different kinds and degrees of opportunism. To illustrate the use of the refined concept, the article examines key decisions by British cabinets and…
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas’s innovative explanations for styles of human thought and for the dynamics of institutional change have furnished a distinctive and powerful theory of how conflicts are managed, yet her work remains astonishingly poorly appreciated in social science disciplines. This volume introduces Douglas’s theories, and outlines the ways in which her work is of continuing importance for the future of the social sciences. Mary Douglas: Understand…
Obituary
Introduction to the Symposium
This symposium showcases diverse contributions that a particular institutional theory of cultural biases makes to public administration and policy research. Bridging and integrating these subfields, the theory offers powerful explanations for the ways in which institutional processes drive policy‐making. Developed initially by Douglas using Durkheimian theory, Hood and Wildavsky made the theory increasingly influential in public administration an…
Explaining styles of political judgement in British government
During their time in office, British governments’ styles of political judgement or bias in policymaking often become shorter in term and less intellectually coherent, sometimes in passive or coping ways, sometimes shifting toward imposition. This article offers an explanation, developing the neo-Durkheimian theory of institutional dynamics. Changing judgement style, it argues, is driven by changes in administrations’ informal institutional orderi…
How ‘Natives’ Work
How do political administrations sustain whatever kinds of cohesion they do, over their time in office? Although recent research emphasizes institutions, sometimes institutions also weaken cohesion. Informal institutions are more important than formal ones in shaping styles of political judgement in governing administrations. But how can institutional processes explain both weakening and strengthening? This article develops a neo‐Durkheimian theo…
Explaining Unintended and Unexpected Consequences of Policy Decisions
The vulnerability of policymaking to unintended and unanticipated consequences has been documented since Thucydides. Yet we still lack integrated conceptual and explanatory accounts of their variety and aetiology. Adequate consideration of putatively unintended and unanticipated consequences requires evidence about policymakers' prior intentions and anticipations, the factors affecting their cognition, and the forces bearing upon responses to att…
Elementary Forms and their Dynamics
Mary Douglas's oeuvre furnishes the social sciences with one of the most profound and ambitious bodies of social theory ever to emerge from within anthropology. This article uses the occasion of the publication of Fardon's two volumes of her previously uncollected papers to restate her core arguments about the limited plurality of elementary forms of social organisation, about the institutional dynamics of conflict, and about conflict attenuation…
Explaining Decision‐making in Government
In understanding styles of political judgement in government decision‐making, explanatory limitations of rational choice, prospect theoretic, historical institutional, groupthink, and other approaches suggest that there is space for developing other frameworks. This article argues that the neo‐Durkheimian institutional theoretical framework deserves serious consideration. It shows that it offers a powerful causally explanatory framework for gener…
Explaining Political Judgement
What is political judgement? Why do politicians exhibit such contrasting thought styles in making decisions, even when they agree ideologically? What happens when governments with contrasting thought styles have to deal with each other? In this book Perri 6 presents a fresh, rigorous explanatory theory of judgement, its varieties and its consequences, drawing upon Durkheim and Douglas. He argues that policy makers will understand - and misunderst…
Paradoxes of Modernization
Making People More Responsible
A distinctive feature of the three Blair New Labour governments' domestic policy was the effort to change citizens' behaviour. Variously explained using such slogans as ‘something for something’, ‘responsibility’ and, in combating antisocial behaviour, ‘respect’, behaviour change was presented by the PM's Strategy Unit as an overarching strategic framework for policy. This included conditionality in welfare to work, health promotion campaigns, a …
Performing Leadership
The notion that leadership involves performance is not new, but there has been little detailed exploration of the implications of theories of performance for contemporary leadership practice. This article differentiates between leadership `is' performance and leadership `as 'performance as one means of investigating contemporary leadership. We suggest that this distinction allows for more sustainable accounts of the relationships between leaders,…
What environmental and technological risk communication research and health risk research can learn from each other
The study of risk perception and communication has emerged in several disciplines and fields, and there has not been strong convergence between them, especially in Europe and specifically in Britain. The lack of connection between, for example, the fields of health risk and environmental and technological risk, and still more with respect to fears of crime or old age poverty or privacy violation, has meant that theories have not been shown to be …
Information‐sharing and Confidentiality in Social Policy
In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies’ persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information‐sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not …
The Tools of Government in the Digital Age ‐ by Christopher C. Hood and Helen Z. Margetts
Incremental change without policy learning
This paper reviews recent policy changes in English mental health services and the nature of the evidence base that has guided these changes. In particular, the paper focuses on different groups within mental health policy and practice, citing examples of information rejection by each of the key stakeholders. Drawing on a neo-Durkheimian institutionalist framework, the paper argues that each group classifies the world, remembers and forgets, and …
Devolution and individual choice in local government services
The Labour government in England is pressing for further individual consumer choice in local authority services and, in the name of localism, exploring possibilities for devolution of powers to councils. Little work has been done on how the two agendas might interact. Are they in inevitable tension, because choice promotes exit and devolution promotes voice? Might devolution be offered as a reward for good performance in choice? What might be the…
Public Emotions
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
Joined-Up Government in the Western World in Comparative Perspective
In many Western countries, policy makers are making greater efforts toward improving horizontal coordination and integration between departments and agencies within government than seemed to be the case in the mid-1980s. "Joined up government" is a slogan that originated in the United Kingdom but has been widely picked up elsewhere. However, not all countries are "joining up," and those that are are not all doing it in the same way. After setting…
Information‐sharing and Confidentiality in Social Policy
In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies’ persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information‐sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not …
Institutional viability
This article presents a statement of a theory of the conditions under which are institutions, policies and arrangements viable or sustainable, rooted in the neo-Durkheimian tradition. The argument is that institutions have the greatest chance of viability when they exhibit sufficient internal variety of the basic institutional forms, and when the conflicts between these forms can be contained by one or more types of settlements. Institutional for…
Giving Consumers of British Public Services More Choice
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in the autumn of 2001 that he wanted to extend individual consumer choice in the public services (Blair, 2001). What do we know from recent experience about the conditions under which such policies can be sustained? In this article, the experience of individual consumer choice over the last ten, and in some cases, fifteen years, is compared across nine fields of British public services. The article iden…
Institutional Shaping of Interagency Working
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Oxford University Press / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/379
Introduction to the Symposium
This symposium showcases diverse contributions that a particular institutional theory of cultural biases makes to public administration and policy research. Bridging and integrating these subfields, the theory offers powerful explanations for the ways in which institutional processes drive policy‐making. Developed initially by Douglas using Durkheimian theory, Hood and Wildavsky made the theory increasingly influential in public administration an…
What's in a frame? Social organization, risk perception and the sociology of knowledge
A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable have focused on the idea of a ‘frame’. Theories of fram…
Making People More Responsible
A distinctive feature of the three Blair New Labour governments' domestic policy was the effort to change citizens' behaviour. Variously explained using such slogans as ‘something for something’, ‘responsibility’ and, in combating antisocial behaviour, ‘respect’, behaviour change was presented by the PM's Strategy Unit as an overarching strategic framework for policy. This included conditionality in welfare to work, health promotion campaigns, a …
Explaining Unintended and Unexpected Consequences of Policy Decisions
The vulnerability of policymaking to unintended and unanticipated consequences has been documented since Thucydides. Yet we still lack integrated conceptual and explanatory accounts of their variety and aetiology. Adequate consideration of putatively unintended and unanticipated consequences requires evidence about policymakers' prior intentions and anticipations, the factors affecting their cognition, and the forces bearing upon responses to att…
Explaining Decision‐making in Government
In understanding styles of political judgement in government decision‐making, explanatory limitations of rational choice, prospect theoretic, historical institutional, groupthink, and other approaches suggest that there is space for developing other frameworks. This article argues that the neo‐Durkheimian institutional theoretical framework deserves serious consideration. It shows that it offers a powerful causally explanatory framework for gener…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to ‘joined-up working’, by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens’ personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the Eu…
Elementary Forms and their Dynamics
Mary Douglas's oeuvre furnishes the social sciences with one of the most profound and ambitious bodies of social theory ever to emerge from within anthropology. This article uses the occasion of the publication of Fardon's two volumes of her previously uncollected papers to restate her core arguments about the limited plurality of elementary forms of social organisation, about the institutional dynamics of conflict, and about conflict attenuation…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The tension between the goals of integrated, seamless public services, requiring more extensive data sharing, and of privacy protection, now represents a major challenge for UK policy-makers, regulators and service managers. In Part I of this article (see Public Administration volume 83, number 1, pp. 111–33), we showed that attempts to manage this tension are being made at two levels. First, a settlement is being attempted at the level of genera…
New Labour's modernization in the public sector
Five accounts of New Labour's style of public management reform can be identified in the recent academic literature. Although each has merits, none is wholly convincing. After a discussion of their scope and limits, this article offers a distinctive account, grounded in wider social theory, which also synthesizes the most valuable elements in the five mainstream accounts. The article then uses the case of New Labour's reforms of the mental health…
Explaining styles of political judgement in British government
During their time in office, British governments’ styles of political judgement or bias in policymaking often become shorter in term and less intellectually coherent, sometimes in passive or coping ways, sometimes shifting toward imposition. This article offers an explanation, developing the neo-Durkheimian theory of institutional dynamics. Changing judgement style, it argues, is driven by changes in administrations’ informal institutional orderi…
Performing Leadership
The notion that leadership involves performance is not new, but there has been little detailed exploration of the implications of theories of performance for contemporary leadership practice. This article differentiates between leadership `is' performance and leadership `as 'performance as one means of investigating contemporary leadership. We suggest that this distinction allows for more sustainable accounts of the relationships between leaders,…
Incremental change without policy learning
This paper reviews recent policy changes in English mental health services and the nature of the evidence base that has guided these changes. In particular, the paper focuses on different groups within mental health policy and practice, citing examples of information rejection by each of the key stakeholders. Drawing on a neo-Durkheimian institutionalist framework, the paper argues that each group classifies the world, remembers and forgets, and …
Public Emotions
Should We Be Compelled to Have Identity Cards? Justifications for the Legal Enforcement of Obligations
In many countries, there is a debate about whether compulsory identity card schemes are acceptable and justifiable. The UK government, for example, has now committed itself to introduce such a scheme. This case provides the main example in the article, although the argument is of general application. Justifying compulsion requires not only that there be a demonstrated and fundamental obligation upon residents in a country to identify themselves u…
Ownership and the New Politics of the Public Interest Services
European competition law and the non-profit sector
Although there has been a debate in the USA for more than two decades about competition policy and non-profit organisations, the debate has not yet had the same prominence in Europe. Only in the last few years, even in the USA, has anti-trust policy toward the sector been examined. The paper examines the position for two groups of competition issues in European Community law: first, the problem of the lawfulness of grant aid, given the rules agai…
What environmental and technological risk communication research and health risk research can learn from each other
The study of risk perception and communication has emerged in several disciplines and fields, and there has not been strong convergence between them, especially in Europe and specifically in Britain. The lack of connection between, for example, the fields of health risk and environmental and technological risk, and still more with respect to fears of crime or old age poverty or privacy violation, has meant that theories have not been shown to be …
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
The morality of managing risk
A widespread trend in risk management recently might be described as proceduralismthe search for procedures by which parties can be brought together, in the hope of bypassing substantive moral and political disagreements. This article argues that there are severe limits to what can be expected of proceduralism, distinguishing four basic types. It goes on to argue that a central area of substantive disagreement that must be addressed in risk manag…
Housing Policy in the Risk Archipelago
Housing policy analysts should draw more than they do on ideas and work on the concept of risk, for four reasons. First, there is a set of tools in the literature on cultures of risk perception that can help to explain the divisions, trends and tendencies in the politics of housing. For example, these tools can help explain why some housing risks become salient, and others recede. Second, ideas from the field of risk management are useful ways in…
European competition law and the non-profit sector
Although there has been a debate in the USA for more than two decades about competition policy and non-profit organisations, the debate has not yet had the same prominence in Europe. Only in the last few years, even in the USA, has anti-trust policy toward the sector been examined. The paper examines the position for two groups of competition issues in European Community law: first, the problem of the lawfulness of grant aid, given the rules agai…
Mark Bovens and Paul t'Hart, Understanding Policy Fiascoes, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1996
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The state to come
Housing Policy in the Risk Archipelago
Housing policy analysts should draw more than they do on ideas and work on the concept of risk, for four reasons. First, there is a set of tools in the literature on cultures of risk perception that can help to explain the divisions, trends and tendencies in the politics of housing. For example, these tools can help explain why some housing risks become salient, and others recede. Second, ideas from the field of risk management are useful ways in…
Ownership and the New Politics of the Public Interest Services
The morality of managing risk
A widespread trend in risk management recently might be described as proceduralismthe search for procedures by which parties can be brought together, in the hope of bypassing substantive moral and political disagreements. This article argues that there are severe limits to what can be expected of proceduralism, distinguishing four basic types. It goes on to argue that a central area of substantive disagreement that must be addressed in risk manag…
Commentary
Ethics, regulation and the new artificial intelligence, part II
Ethics, Regulation and the New Artificial Intelligence, Part I
A generation ago, there was a major debate about the social and ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI). Interest in that debate waned from the late 1980s. However, both patterns of public risk perception and new technological developments suggest that it is time to re-open that debate. The important issues about AI arise in connection with the prospect of robotic and digital agent systems taking socially significant decisions autono…
Ethics, regulation and the new artificial intelligence, part II
What is there to feel? A neo-Durkheimian theory of the emotions
Many of the main theoretical traditions in the sociology of the emotions have limitations in their explanations of the institutionalized styles of emotional work, of the menu of emotions available to be felt in particular settings, and of the causal processes by which particular emotions are elicited in those settings. A promising way forward is to apply neo-Durkheimian institutional theory, which also overcomes some of the limitations of Durkhei…
Institutional viability
This article presents a statement of a theory of the conditions under which are institutions, policies and arrangements viable or sustainable, rooted in the neo-Durkheimian tradition. The argument is that institutions have the greatest chance of viability when they exhibit sufficient internal variety of the basic institutional forms, and when the conflicts between these forms can be contained by one or more types of settlements. Institutional for…
Giving Consumers of British Public Services More Choice
British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced in the autumn of 2001 that he wanted to extend individual consumer choice in the public services (Blair, 2001). What do we know from recent experience about the conditions under which such policies can be sustained? In this article, the experience of individual consumer choice over the last ten, and in some cases, fifteen years, is compared across nine fields of British public services. The article iden…
What's in a frame? Social organization, risk perception and the sociology of knowledge
A central problem in the sociology of knowledge has been to show that sane people can intelligibly have quite different alternative understandings of the same problem, such as a kind of risk, without abandoning the idea that there is a real problem about which to disagree, and to show the social basis of both plurality and viability. In recent decades, attempts to make this problem tractable have focused on the idea of a ‘frame’. Theories of fram…
Joined-Up Government in the Western World in Comparative Perspective
In many Western countries, policy makers are making greater efforts toward improving horizontal coordination and integration between departments and agencies within government than seemed to be the case in the mid-1980s. "Joined up government" is a slogan that originated in the United Kingdom but has been widely picked up elsewhere. However, not all countries are "joining up," and those that are are not all doing it in the same way. After setting…
New Labour's modernization in the public sector
Five accounts of New Labour's style of public management reform can be identified in the recent academic literature. Although each has merits, none is wholly convincing. After a discussion of their scope and limits, this article offers a distinctive account, grounded in wider social theory, which also synthesizes the most valuable elements in the five mainstream accounts. The article then uses the case of New Labour's reforms of the mental health…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to ‘joined-up working’, by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens’ personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the Eu…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The tension between the goals of integrated, seamless public services, requiring more extensive data sharing, and of privacy protection, now represents a major challenge for UK policy-makers, regulators and service managers. In Part I of this article (see Public Administration volume 83, number 1, pp. 111–33), we showed that attempts to manage this tension are being made at two levels. First, a settlement is being attempted at the level of genera…
Should We Be Compelled to Have Identity Cards? Justifications for the Legal Enforcement of Obligations
In many countries, there is a debate about whether compulsory identity card schemes are acceptable and justifiable. The UK government, for example, has now committed itself to introduce such a scheme. This case provides the main example in the article, although the argument is of general application. Justifying compulsion requires not only that there be a demonstrated and fundamental obligation upon residents in a country to identify themselves u…
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
Institutional Shaping of Interagency Working
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Oxford University Press / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/379
Incremental change without policy learning
This paper reviews recent policy changes in English mental health services and the nature of the evidence base that has guided these changes. In particular, the paper focuses on different groups within mental health policy and practice, citing examples of information rejection by each of the key stakeholders. Drawing on a neo-Durkheimian institutionalist framework, the paper argues that each group classifies the world, remembers and forgets, and …
Devolution and individual choice in local government services
The Labour government in England is pressing for further individual consumer choice in local authority services and, in the name of localism, exploring possibilities for devolution of powers to councils. Little work has been done on how the two agendas might interact. Are they in inevitable tension, because choice promotes exit and devolution promotes voice? Might devolution be offered as a reward for good performance in choice? What might be the…
Public Emotions
What environmental and technological risk communication research and health risk research can learn from each other
The study of risk perception and communication has emerged in several disciplines and fields, and there has not been strong convergence between them, especially in Europe and specifically in Britain. The lack of connection between, for example, the fields of health risk and environmental and technological risk, and still more with respect to fears of crime or old age poverty or privacy violation, has meant that theories have not been shown to be …
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