Public Administration in Contested Societies

Karl O' Connor is Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, University of Ulster, UK. He has published in the areas of conflict management/resolution, public policy, bureaucrat behaviour, Q Methodology and European committee governance. His PhD thesis, upon which this book is based, won The Hutton Prize for Excellence which aims to reward research that contributes to increasing standards of governance.

1. Representative Bureaucracy in Plural Societies 2. Researching in Contested Cities: Belfast and Brussels 3. Belfast: Everyday Policy-making in a Contested Environment 4. Brussels: Power-Sharing at the Lowest Common Denominator 5. The Merit Principle in a Representative Bureaucracy: Belfast 6. Active Representation within the Power-sharing Society: The Values Guiding Administrative Decision-making in Belfast and Brussels 7. Concluding Remarks: Bureaucrats and Conflict Management