Making public services management critical
By: edited by Graeme Currie ... [et al.].
Contributors: Currie, Graeme.
Series: Routledge critical studies in public management -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780415449984; 9780203872611
Subjects: Public administration -- Management; Nonprofit organizations -- Management; Social service -- Management; Public welfare -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From collective struggle to customer service : the story of how self help and mutual aid led to the welfare state and became co-opted in market managerialism / Patrick Reedy; title: Toward unprincipled public service : critical ideology, the fetish of capitalism, and some thoughts on the future of governance / Frank E. Scott; title: Sheep in wolf's clothing : schools, managerialism, and altering ideologies / Patricia A.L. Ehrensal; title: Public sector management? But we're academics, we don't do that sort of thing! / Michael Humphreys and Mark Learmonth; title: The inevitability of professions? / Robert Dingwall; title: Critical risk management : moral entrepreneurship in the management of patient safety / Justin Waring; title: Public participation in state governance from a social-theoretical perspective / Graham P. Martin; title: Marketing the unmarketable : the Vlaams Belang, a 'party unlike any other' / Mona Moufahim, Michael Humphreys and Darryn Mittusis; title: A critical realist analysis of institutional change in the field of US nursing homes / Martin Kitchener & Bernard Leca; title: Critical leadership theorising and local government practice / Jackie Ford; title: Individual patient choice in the English National Health Service : the case for social fantasy seen from psychoanalytic perspective / Marianna Fotaki; title: From metaphor to reality : a critical view of prisons / Finola Farrant; title: Queer(y)ing voluntary sector services : an example from health promotion / Nancy Harding and Hugh Lee; title: The contribution of existential thinking to public services management / John Lawler; title: Adding value to critical public services management / Craig Prichard; title: Conclusion : what is to be done? On the merits of micro-revolutions / Jackie Ford and Nancy Harding.