New Managerialism, New Welfare? / Edition 1

by John H. Clarke, Sharon Gewirtz, Eugene McLaughlin

Overview

New Managerialism, New Welfare? is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing restructuring of the state and social welfare in the United Kingdom. It combines studies of specific policy areas - such as health, education, criminal justice, local government - with chapters that examine cross-cutting themes and developments. The book provides a thorough and critical reflection on New Labour's vision of the past and future of social welfare and public services in the construction of a ‘modern society'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761967576
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/08/2000
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Eugene Mc Laughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

Table of Contents

Reinventing the Welfare State - John Clarke, Sharon Gewirtz and Eugene Mc Laughlin
Managerialism and Public Service - Norman Flynn
Some International Trends
Beyond the New Public Management? - Janet Newman
Modernizing Public Services
Entrepreneurial Governance and Public Management - Paul du Gay
The Anti-Bureaucrats
Unpacking Partnership - Tom Ling
The Case of Health Care
Health Care - Lynne Poole
New Labour's NHS
Local Government - Allan Cochrane
Magerialism and Modernization
Social Housing - Roberta Woods
Managing Multiple Pressures
Social Services - Mary Langan
Managing the Third Way
The Criminal Justice System - Eugene Mc Laughlin and John Muncie
New Labour's New Partnership
Leisure - Alan Clarke
Managerialism and Public Space
Modernizing Managerialism in Education - Ross Fergusson
Education - Jenny Ozga
New Labour, New Teachers
Managing Performance Through Pay - Barbara Waine
Guarding the Public Interest? - John Clarke, Sharon Gewirtz, Gordon Hughes and Jill Humphrey
Auditing Public Services

Editorial Reviews

‘The editors have assembled an original collection of papers from leading academics in social policy...in exploring the nature of New Labour's modernisation project and vision of welfare, it will be extremely relevant to a much wider audience, including students, welfare practitioners and managers' - British Journal of Social Work

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