12 The risks of risk management
Introduction
The theoretical perspective taken in this chapter is the Politics of Attention (Behn, 1998; Jones and Baumgartner, 2005; Johnsen, 2012). From this perspective, the risk of failure has a disproportionate impact in public services. This can make both public administrations and government bodies and agencies focus overly on any instances of failure. This perspective may negate a learning environment and an open transparent approach to public affairs. This is a very timely connection with risk management the subject of this chapter.
The adoption of Risk Management (RM) for organizations remains an apparent solution to the challenges of the “risk society” ...
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