Research Catalog

Title

Public matters / edited by Patrick Diamond with the Public Service Reform Group.

Publication

London : Politico's, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Diamond, Patrick.
• Public Service Reform Group (Great Britain)

Description

viii, 383 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The modernisation of public services is one of the central challenges facing any government. There are enormous expectations surrounding the public service reform agenda but also real anxieties - there have been prominent public management failings in recent years and the record of delivery in key areas remains patchy. New Labour needs to go back to first principles and develop a new agenda for public service reform after ten years in power. The Government's relations with public service workers have often been tense and unconstructive. Lack of clarity about the future direction of change generates anxiety among public service professionals. Some key underlying conceptual and philosophical debates are also unresolved - such as the role of the state and the market in public service delivery, and the relative weight given to localism and equity. "Public Matters" addresses all of these issues - and more - through clear, incisive, empirically rigorous and theoretically informed analysis of the issues from leading experts in the field. It covers general themes (inequality, choice, funding etc.) and specific areas (education, work, environment etc.) with equal authority."--Publisher's description.

Subject

• 1997-2007
• Municipal services > Great Britain
• County services > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1997-2007

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Introduction -- our argument for change -- 1. Public services: a radical settlement for the next decade / Patrick Diamond -- 2. context for reform and why progressives need a new narrative on public services / Ben Lucas -- Pt. II. Empowering citizens and communities -- 3. state, the citizen and public, services: a new collectivist agenda / Gerry Stoker -- 4. Financing public services / Anthony Giddens -- 5. From choice to control: empowering public services / Ann Rossiter and Liam Byrne -- 6. Transforming public services through the third sector / Stephen Bubb -- 7. user-generated state: Public Services 2.0 / Charles Leadbeater and Hilary Cottam -- Pt. III. Decentralising the strategic state -- 8. Effective governance and the civil service: the role of ministers and managers / Michael Bichard -- 9. Effective governance and the role of public service professionals / Charles Clarke -- 10. Competition for social justice: markets and contestability in public services / David Albury -- 11. Economic inequality and public services / John Hutton -- 12. Innovation, improvement and the empowered user in public services / Geoff Mulgan -- 13. Governance of place; shaping a new localism / Dermot Finch -- Pt. IV. Tailoring reform to public service challenges -- 14. Better outcomes, better value / Geoffrey Filkin -- 15. Governing effectively / Robert Hill -- 16. healthy future? / Simon Stevens -- 17. Education, education, education: the next decade / Robert Hill -- 18. Narrowing the gap: how early investment will tackle new inequalities / Patrick Diamond -- 19. 'Rebalancing' the criminal justice system / Ben Rogers -- 20. Drowning in alphabet soup?: is there a rase for simplifying skills policy? / David Coats, Laura Williams and Alexandra Jones.

ISBN

• 9781842752111 (pbk.)
• 1842752111 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007532248

OCLC

• 137313869
• SCSB-10918986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library