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Public services and financial austerity : getting out of the hole? / Roger Latham, Malcolm Prowle ; with a foreword by Margaret Wheatley.
- Title
- Public services and financial austerity : getting out of the hole? / Roger Latham, Malcolm Prowle ; with a foreword by Margaret Wheatley.
- Author
- Latham, Roger, 1950-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Prowle, Malcolm.
- Description
- xiii, 264 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: ISSUES AND ALTERNATIVES -- Introduction -- The Challenges Facing UK Public Services -- We Are Not Alone... How Others Have Coped -- Strategic Background -- PART II: THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ITS PROSPECTS FOR SUCCESSES -- The Development of Modern Public Services -- The Characteristics of the Current UK Public Services Model -- UK Public Services -- Attempts at Reform -- PART III: RADICAL ALTERNATIVES AND CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD -- A New Paradigm -- Managing the Change -- What are the Implications? -- The Wider View -- Postscript -- References -- Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 9780230296503
- 0230296505
- LCCN
- 2011043802
- 40020504657
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries