Beschreibung:
How do bureaucracies remember? 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, this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable.
1. Introduction; 2. Whole of government processes and the creation of collective memories: the case of the Tasmanian Family Violence Action Plan; 3. What happens with iterative conversations in cases of policy failure: the State of Victoria's smart metering program, Australia; 4. Differentiated memories: the case of the UK's Zero Carbon Hub; 5. Living Memories: the case of the New Zealand justice sector; 6. Conclusion.