![]() | Making the Most of Mess: Reliability and Policy in Today''s Management Challenges Throughout, Roe focuses on the global financial mess of 2008 and its ongoing aftermath, showing how mismanagement has allowed it to morph into other national and international messes. More effective management is still possible for this and many other policy messes but that requires better recognition of patterns and formulation of scenarios, as well as the ability to translate pattern and scenario into reliability. Developing networks of professionals who respond to messes is particularly important. Roe describes how these networks enable the avoidance of bad or worse messes, take advantage of opportunities resulting from messes, and address societal and professional challenges. In addition to finance, he draws from a wide range of case material in other policy arenas. Roe demonstrates that knowing how to manage policy messes is the best approach to preventing crises. Emery Roe is a practicing policy analyst and Associate at University of California Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. He is the author of Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice , also published by Duke University Press. |
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