The enabling state
Subtitle: people before bureaucracy
By: edited by Peter Botsman and Mark Latham.
Contributors: Botsman, Peter.; Latham, Mark, 1961-
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Annandale, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Social capital (Sociology) -- Australia.; Civil society -- Australia.; Australia -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part A. Introduction; title: 1. Master to servant state / Peter Botsman; title: 2. The new economy and the new politics / Mark Latham; title: Part B. Enabling education; title: 3. Policies for a knowledge nation / Mark Latham; title: 4. Independent schools, community management and innovation / Peter Botsman; title: Part C. Enabling social policy; title: 5. Wise transformations: employment, training and the intermediate labour market / Simon Rennie, Abigail Howard and Alan Sinclair; title: 6. Social wage cooperatives / Peter Botsman; title: 7. Australia's new health care challenge: enabling good health through social entrepreneurship / Peter Botsman; title: Part D. Enabling communities; title: 8. Making welfare work / Mark Latham; title: 9. Rebuilding indigenous communities / Noel Pearson; title: 10. Making dinosaurs dance: social entrepreneurship and civic action / Andrew Mawson; title: 11. Putting the mutual into mutal obligations / Peter Botsman; title: Part E. Enabling governance; title: 12. Beating the bureaucracy: humanising modern government / Gary L. Sturgess; title: 13. Government by discussion / Glyn Davis; title: 14. The moral foundations of government / Mark Latham; title: Part F. Conclusion; title: 15. The enabling state: from government to governance / Mark Latham; title: Appendix; title: Notes; title: Index.<