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oapen-20.500.12657-524412022-01-15T02:49:24Z Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement Seibel, Wolfgang Open Access public mismanagement collapsing structures public management organisational failure Black Swans human security Risk management causal mechanisms building collapse West Gate Bridge I-35W Mississippi River Bridge Canterbury TV Building in Christchurch urban development contractors consultants accountability structures bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPP Public administration This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially easy, the difficult part for public officials and private contractors and consultants alike is to resist incentives that threaten professional skills and standards. Rather than stressing well-known pathologies of bureaucracy as a potential source of disaster, this book argues, learning for the sake of prevention should aim at neutralizing threats to integrity and strengthening a sense of responsibility among public officials. 2022-01-14T13:41:40Z 2022-01-14T13:41:40Z 2022 book ONIX_20220114_9783030678180_29 9783030678180 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52441 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-67818-0.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-67818-0 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-67818-0 10.1007/978-3-030-67818-0 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 4192b5b9-7263-4726-8f1f-e3ddd111b196 9783030678180 Palgrave Macmillan 182 [grantnumber unknown] open access
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This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially easy, the difficult part for public officials and private contractors and consultants alike is to resist incentives that threaten professional skills and standards. Rather than stressing well-known pathologies of bureaucracy as a potential source of disaster, this book argues, learning for the sake of prevention should aim at neutralizing threats to integrity and strengthening a sense of responsibility among public officials.
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