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The Changing Organisation and Management of Local Government

Local government organisation and management in Britain is in the throes of a major transformation brought about by changing economic, social and political circumstances and central government legislation. This book outlines the major pressures for change and analyses and assesses local government's response in terms of role, culture, structure and internal process. Particular attention is paid to the consequences of new decentralised, competitive/regulatory and enabling models of what local authorities should be like in the mid 1990s.

... has become much more of a problem under the new legislation ) and within the education service itself . ... large number of relatively autonomous service provision units ( including but not limited to those services which have been ...

Management for the Public Domain

Enabling the Learning Society

In this important attempt to reorient the theory and practice of public management, Stewart Ranson and John Stewart argue that public organisations must be analysed in terms of the distinctive values, purposes, tasks and conditions of the public domain. They show how it is only on this basis that they can meet the needs of citizens in a mature democracy and support the processes of a learning society.

The demand for greater accountability , therefore , arguably challenges not only the insularity of the professionals and their inability to account to the public , but also this ongoing political tradition of accountability because of ...