"Knowing" the rules: administrative work as practice (Record no. 63338)
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| Personal name | Wagenaar, Hendrik |
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| Title | "Knowing" the rules: administrative work as practice |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004 |
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| Extent | p.643-55. |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation | Nov-Dec |
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| Summary, etc. | This article presents a theory of administrative work as practice. Building on a rich narrative of a mid-level administrator in the Dutch Immigration Office, four core elements of administrative practice are identified: contextuality, acting, knowing, and interacting. Taking cues from practice theory and ethnomethodology, the author argues that the visible aspects of administrative work (decisions, reports, negotiations, standard operating procedures, and - on a higher level of institutional abstraction - structures, legal rules, lines of authority, and accountability) are effectuations, enactments of the hidden, taken-for-granted routines: the almost unthinking actions, tacit knowledge, fleeting interactions, practical judgments, self-evident understandings and background knowledge, shared meanings, and personal feelings that constitute the core of administrative work. Taken together, contextuality, acting, knowing, and interacting make up a unified account of practical judgment in an administrative environment that is characterized by complexity, indeterminacy, and the necessity to act on the situation at hand. - Reproduced. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Public administration |
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| Main entry heading | Public Administration Review |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2018-07-19 | Volume no: 64, Issue no: 6 | AR63788 | 2018-07-19 | 2018-07-19 | Articles |