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Title

A Different kind of state? : popular power and democratic administration / edited by Gregory Albo, David Langille, and Leo Panitch.

Publication

Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Albo, Gregory
• Langille, David, 1951-
• Panitch, Leo

Description

x, 243 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"A large factor in the appeal of neo-conservatism in the early 1980s was its sustained attack on the welfare state. Even those most dependent on public services were frustrated by a system that allowed them no say in decisions directly affecting their lives. A decade later, the alternative offered by the new right - free market competition - has only deepened the need for effective state assistance. The solution must be not in privatizing the public sector, but in making it more responsive; the real issue is not more state or less state, but rather a different kind of state." "How might those on the democratic left govern differently? How might political parties committed to the progressive reform of our political institutions design structures and processes that would enhance citizen participation, and at the same time maintain and increase democratic accountability? How might new administrations implement such a program? The twenty contributors to this book share the experiences they have gained in various contemporary political experiments and popular movements, in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States, that have attempted to expand citizen involvement and democratic administrative practices within the public sector."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Public administration > Decision making
• Political participation
• Political participation > Canada
• Canada > Decision making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Popular Power and Democratic Administration -- 1. A Different Kind of State? / Leo Panitch -- 2. Democratic Citizenship and the Future of Public Management / Gregory Albo -- II. Beyond the Welfare State: Popular Planning and Democracy -- 3. Creating a Developmental State: Reflections on Policy as Process / Maureen Mackintosh -- 4. Transforming the 'Fordist' State / Robin Murray -- 5. Reforming the Welfare State: The American Experience / Frances Fox Piven -- 6. Citizenship and Civil Society: Redressing Undemocratic Features of the Welfare State / David P. Shugarman -- 7. Capture or Co-management: Democracy and Accountability in Regulatory Agencies / Liora Salter -- 8. Democracy and Ecology: Envisioning a Transition to a Green Economy / Wally Seccombe -- III. Agencies for Democratization: Social Movements and Public Employees -- 9. A New Kind of Knowledge for a New Kind of State / Hilary Wainwright --^
• 10. Social Movements and the State: Presentation and Representation / Warren Magnusson -- 11. Social Movements and the American State: Legal Mobilization as a Strategy for Democratization / Michael W. Mccann and Helena Silverstein -- 12. Public-Sector Unions and the Possibilities for Democratic Administration in the US / Carol Maclennan -- 13. Democratizing the Local State: Issues for Feminist Practice and the Representation of Women / Sue Hawkins Findlay -- 14. Political Education for Democratic Administration / David V.J. Bell -- IV. Paradoxes of Power: Canada's Social Democratic Experience -- 15. Moving Beyond the Limited Democracy of Social Democracy / Meyer Brownstone -- 16. Democratizing Economic Policy Formulation: The Manitoba Experience / John Loxley -- 17. Public Participation in Welfare: The Winnipeg Child and Family Services System / Grant Reid -- 18. Public-Sector Unions and the Prospects for Democratic Reform under the Ontario NDP / Wayne Roberts --^
• 19. Social Movements and the NDP Government of Ontario / Kerry Mccuaig -- 20. Putting Democratic Administration on the Political Agenda / David Langille.

ISBN

0195409078 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

^^^93168437^

OCLC

• 29185157
• SCSB-12058037

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library