Institutional Memory as Storytelling

Institutional Memory as Storytelling
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 9781108805933
ISBN-13 : 1108805930
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Book Synopsis Institutional Memory as Storytelling by : Jack Corbett

Download or read book Institutional Memory as Storytelling written by Jack Corbett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated polity. Drawing on four policy examples from four sectors (housing, energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable. It is concluded that the current conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern collaborative governance.


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