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Observing Government Elites AlsobyR.A.W.Rhodes THEOXFORDHANDBOOKOFPOLITICALINSTITUTIONS GOVERNANCESTORIES AlsobyPaul‘tHart THEPOLITICSOFCRISISMANAGEMENT:PublicLeadershipunderPressure GOVERNING AFTER CRISIS: The Politics of Investigation, Accountability and Learning AlsobyMirkoNoordegraaf ATTENTION!WORKANDBEHAVIOROFPUBLICMANAGERSAMIDST AMBIGUITY MANAGEMENTINPUBLICDOMAINS Observing Government Elites Up Close and Personal Editedby R. A. W. Rhodes Director,ResearchSchoolofSocialSciences DistinguishedProfessorofPoliticalScience AustralianNationalUniversity Paul ‘t Hart ProfessorofPoliticalScience, AustralianNationalUniversityandProfessorofPublicAdministration,Utrecht University and Mirko Noordegraaf ProfessorofPublicManagement UtrechtUniversity Editorialmatter,selection,introductionandconclusion©R.A.W.Rhodes, Paul‘tHartandMirkoNoordegraaf2007 Allremainingchapters©respectiveauthors2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-00840-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. 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AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents ListofBoxes,FiguresandTables vii Acknowledgements viii ListofContributors ix 1. BeingThere 1 R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul ‘t Hart and Mirko Noordegraaf Part I: Observing at Home: National and Local Elites 2. The Everyday Life of a Minister: a Confessional and ImpressionistTale 21 R. A. W. Rhodes 3. SpiesattheCrossroads:ObservingChangeintheDutch IntelligenceService 51 Paul ‘t Hart 4. MenatWork:HowPublicPolicyManagersCope 78 Mirko Noordegraaf 5. GoverningKarlstad:anInsider’sStory 103 P. O. Norell Part II: Observing Across Borders: Eurocratic Elites 6. DutchEurocratsatWork:GettingThingsDoneinEurope 131 Karin Geuijen, Paul ‘t Hart and Kutsal Yesilkagit 7. The EU’s Nomads: National Eurocrats in European Policy-Making 160 Renita Thedvall 8. European Integration in Anthropological Perspective: Studyingthe‘Culture’oftheEUCivilService 180 Cris Shore v vi Contents 9. SoWhat?TheBenefitsandPitfallsofBeingThere 206 R. A. W. Rhodes, Paul ‘t Hart and Mirko Noordegraaf Index 234 List of Boxes, Figures and Tables Box6.1 TISPOL:theEuropeanTransportPoliceNetwork 148 Box9.1 Therulesofthumbforobservation 230 Figure4.1 Policyministries’basicorganisationalstructure 82 Table2.1 TheMinister’sengagementdiary 26 Table6.1 DutchEurocrats:twoideal-types 155 Table7.1 TheCommission’sformonentitlements 166 vii Acknowledgements The Utrecht School of Governance, the Netherlands Institute for Government (NIG) and the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom(PSA)fundedaWorkshopon‘Theethnographyofgovernment elites’heldattheUtrechtSchoolofGovernance,UniversityofUtrecht, 23–25March2006;andapanelatthePoliticalStudiesAssociationofthe United Kingdom Annual Conference, University of Reading, 3–5 April 2006. We also thank participants at both these events for the helpful discussions. We would like to thank Jenny Fleming, Mark Bovens and DvoraYanowforadviceandcomments;andBasdeWitforhishelpin organisingtheUtrechtworkshopandforeditorialsupport.Theacknow- ledgements of individual contributors can be found in their chapters. Asever,anyremainingdeficienciesaretheresponsibilityoftheauthors andeditors. viii List of Contributors Karin Geuijen is a Lecturer in Organisational Culture at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and a postdoctoralresearcherattheDepartmentofCulture,Organisationand Management,FreeUniversity,theNetherlands. Paul ‘t Hart is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National UniversityandProfessorofPublicAdministrationattheUtrechtSchool ofGovernance,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands. Mirko Noordegraaf is Professor of Public Management at the Utrecht SchoolofGovernance,UniversityofUtrecht,theNetherlands. P. O. Norell is Associate Professor of Public Administration at Karlstad University,Sweden. R. A. W. Rhodes is Director, Research School of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Cris Shore is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthro- pology,UniversityofAuckland,NewZealand. RenitaThedvallispostdoctoralresearcherattheStockholmCentrefor OrganisationalResearch(SCORE)atStockholmUniversity,Sweden. Kutsal Yesilkagit is a postdoctoral researcher at the Utrecht School of Governance,UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands ix
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