"This insightful book develops a new theoretical account of governance as regimes of governing practices that shape the political ordering of social relations. This account develops insights from sociology, politics and political economy and is 'post'-poststructuralist in scope.…
"Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to attack, and difficult to explain, particularly in the soundbite and Twitter-snipe media…
The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad over…
The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad over…
The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad over…
"The institutional ethnographies collected in Under new public management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people m…
Account of the origin, development and underlying issues and political problems of East and West Pakistan leading to the creation of Bangladesh - outlines the historical background of economic exploitation and political subservience before Pakistan CAME into being, covers politi…
The use of regulation to control behaviour is a defining feature of modern government, penetrating a wide range of social & economic life, from health & social care to transport & environmental protection. This book offers a detailed study of how regulation works in practice.--R…