The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social WelfareSAGE, 5 may 1997 - 176 páginas This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain.
Examining the micro-politics within public service, the authors draw links between politics, policies and organizational power to present an incisive and dynamic account of the restructuring of social welfare. Clarke and Newman expose the tensions and contradictions in the managerial state and trace the emergence of new dilemmas in the provision of public services. They show that these problems are connected to the recurring difficulties in defining `the public' that receives these services. In partic |
Índice
the Crises of the PostWar | 1 |
Towards the Managerial State? | 18 |
A Change for the Better? The Tyranny of Transformation | 34 |
Regimes of Power | 56 |
Shaping the Managerial | 83 |
the Politics of Representation | 107 |
Reinventing the Public | 123 |
An Unstable State? | 140 |
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The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social ... John Clarke,Janet Newman Vista previa restringida - 1997 |
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The Managerial State: Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social ... John Clarke,Janet Newman Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
administration agencies agenda argued articulated attempts Audit Commission bureau-professional regimes bureaucratic central centre Chapter choice Citizen's Charter citizens commitment communitarianism competitive complex conception concerns consumer consumerism consumerist context core business corporate crisis culture decentralisation defined delivery discourse of change dispersal diversity dominant dynamic economic effects efficiency emerging example focus Fordist global identified ideology imagery incentives individual inequality institutional theory interests internal involved isomorphism issues labour legitimacy legitimate managerial regimes managerialised means ment mixed economy nation needs neo-conservative neo-liberal normative old regime organisational regimes organisational settlement particular performance political post-Fordism post-Fordist practices privatisation problems processes produce professional public choice theory public realm public sector public services quasi-market reforms reinvention relations relationships responsibilities restructuring Right role shift social democratic social policy social settlement social welfare specific stakeholders strategies structures suggests tensions transformation users welfare services