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Rationalisation
About: Rationalisation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 334 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4096 citations.
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1 Dec 1989TL;DR: Pusey et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of economic rationalisation in state and public sector reform in Australia and concluded that economist rationalist view dominate each of the key ministries, and have altered the traditional balance between the economy, the state and society.
Abstract: Throughout the world since the 1970s, state and public sector reform has been driven by a conservative agenda emphasising notions of 'streamlining' and 'rationalisation'; Australia has been no exception. Michael Pusey undertakes a detailed analysis of top bureaucrats in Canberra who have been responsible for this recasting of national policy. He concludes that economist rationalist view dominate each of the key ministries, and have altered the traditional balance between the economy, the state and society. The book also discusses the social significance of economic rationalisation and public sector reform from a theoretical perspective, contributing to contemporary understanding of modernisation, public morality and citizenship in the new global order.
915 citations
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1 Jan 2004
TL;DR: L'ouvrage phare du pere de la sociologie allemande comporte ses concepts cles : la methode des ideaux-types, les formes de domination, la rationalisation de la society as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: L'ouvrage phare du pere de la sociologie allemande comporte ses concepts cles : la methode des ideaux-types, les formes de domination, la rationalisation de la societe. Une oeuvre marquante pour la discipline...
360 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how sustainable consumption resonates and impacts upon the very citizens it has been constructed to affect, and argue that social justice, not sustainable lifestyles, has the most resonance with interviewees.
Abstract: Sustainable consumption is a key concept in the sustainable development paradigm, which calls for individuals in high-incomes countries to consider, and take action on, the environmental impacts of their household consumption practices. Within recent international policy framings, sustainable consumption is part of an efficiency-focussed rationalisation discourse, representing distinct theories of the environment, the state and the individual. This paper considers how this discourse resonates and impacts upon the very citizens it has been constructed to affect. 'Alternate' discourses of sustainable consumption and critical social science research suggests that politically dominant approaches mean little to members of the public. This suggestion is tested here through interviews with participants of a sustainable lifestyle programme in the UK called Action at Home. This analysis argues that social justice, not sustainable lifestyles, has the most resonance with interviewees. As a result, not only do calls ...
358 citations
TL;DR: The fashionable concept of lean production has been discussed more intensively in Germany than elsewhere in Europe but has resulted not only in rationalisation measures such as downsizing and delayering but also in implementing 'Gruppenarbeit'.
Abstract: The ‘fashionable’ concept of lean production has been discussed more intensively in Germany than elsewhere in Europe but has resulted not only in rationalisation measures such as downsizing and delayering but also in implementing ‘Gruppenarbeit’. Through interpretation processes at different levels, the outcomes of action undertaken in the name of a concept can become loose-coupled to its original meanings. Fashion’s ‘interpretive viability’ allows for this.
183 citations
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1 Sep 2008
TL;DR: The Precolonial State The Rationalisation of the State, 1825-1942 Politics under the Rationalised State and Reasserting the State as discussed by the authors, 1962-87 The State Redux (1985-2007)
Abstract: Contents Introduction The Precolonial State The Rationalisation of the State, 1825-1942 Politics under the Rationalised State, 1886-1942 Reasserting the State, 1962-87 The State Redux (1985-2007)
148 citations
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