Paradoxes of Modernization

Paradoxes of Modernization explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail?

PART 1: UNDERSTANDING MODERNIZATION'S PARADOXES ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Modernization Dreams and Public Policy Reform ; 3. When Forethought and Outturn Part: Types of Unanticipated and Unintended Consequences ; PART 2: SOCIETAL INNOVATIONS ; 4. Ranking of U.S. Public Affairs Educational Programs: Searching for Quality, Finding Equilibrium ; 5. Et in Arcadia Ego: From Techno-Utopia to Cybercrime ; 6. Happy Surprises? The Development of the World Wide Web and the Semantic Web ; PART 3: STATE-CENTRED REFORMS ; 7. Addressing Under-nutrition in India: Do 'Rational' Approaches Work? ; 8. Integration at any Price: The Case of the NHS National Programme for Information Technology ; 9. Post-world War II British Railways: The Unintended Consequences of Insufficient Government Intervention ; PART 4: MODERNIZATION OF THE STATE ; 10. The Paradox of Performance-related Pay Systems: Why Do We Keep Adopting Them in the Face of Evidence That They Fail to Motivate? ; 11. What if Public Management Reform Actually Works? The Paradoxical Success of Performance Management in English Local Government ; PART 5: CONCLUSION ; 12. Modernization, Balance, and Variety