Public services and financial austerity
Subtitle: getting out of the hole?
By: Roger Latham, Malcolm Prowle
Contributors: Prowle, Malcolm
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230296503
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Public utilities; Budget deficits; Municipal services
Description: "The authorssuggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success "at a price we cannot afford". It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practical ways it could be implemented. It also explores the threats and opportunities that such an approach might face"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: ISSUES AND ALTERNATIVES; title: Introduction; title: The Challenges Facing UK Public Services; title: We Are Not Alone... How Others Have Coped; title: Strategic Background; title: PART II: THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ITS PROSPECTS FOR SUCCESSES; title: The Development of Modern Public Services; title: The Characteristics of the Current UK Public Services Model; title: UK Public Services - Attempts at Reform; title: PART III: RADICAL ALTERNATIVES AND CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD; title: A New Paradigm; title: Managing the Change - What are the Implications?; title: The Wider View; title: Postscript; title: References; title: Bibliography.