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The chapters in this volume derive from a workshop on ‘Defending
Bureaucracy’ held at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, in March, 2003.
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the workshop and
to offer my considerable gratitude to Pamela Walker and Karen Ho,
who helped organize the event and ensured its smooth running.
The workshop would not have been possible without the generous
financial support of the Pavis Centre for Social and Cultural Research
at the Open University. The preparation of this volume was greatly
facilitated by the support of the Department of Organization and
Work Sociology (IOA) at the Copenhagen Business School where the
editor spent some time as a Visiting Scholar in 2003. Finally, a word of
gratitude to David Musson for commissioning the volume and to
Matthew Derbyshire for editorial guidance, to the chapter authors
who have borne stoically the successive rounds of alterations and
amendments, and to Denise Janes, of the Centre for Citizenship,
Identities and Governance at the Open University, for her exceptional
administrative and secretarial support
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