In the EU public services, utilities and welfare services can be seen as both building blocks for the internal market and as a persistent irritant in the integration process. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the EU law on public services within the context of Europ…
This study offers a critique of the origins, the discourses, the general strategic line, the local variations, the policy turnover, tha failures, and the consequences of the workfare offensive in the USA. It also covers attempts to develop workfare states in Canada and Britain.
Numerous administrative reforms during the past several decades, reffered to as the "New Public Management", have altered government in a number of fundamental ways. These changes have, in turn, produced the need for even greater change if the public sector is to be capable of g…
This book explores the emergence of new forms, sites & practices of publicness & the implications for public services. It examines the remaking of the public in the context of new formations of the nation, where issues of migration, diversity & faith challenge traditional forms …
