The Managerial State

Author : John Clarke,Janet Newman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803976127

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The Managerial State by John Clarke,Janet Newman Pdf

This original analysis of the creation of new state forms critically examines the political forces that enabled `more and better management' to be presented as a solution to the problems of the welfare state in Britain. Examining the micro-politics within public service, the authors draw links between politics, policies and organizational power to present an incisive and dynamic account of the restructuring of social welfare. Clarke and Newman expose the tensions and contradictions in the managerial state and trace the emergence of new dilemmas in the provision of public services. They show that these problems are connected to the recurring difficulties in defining `the public' that receives these services. In partic

Author : Paul Edward Gottfried
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400822898

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After Liberalism by Paul Edward Gottfried Pdf

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Author : John Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:948765513

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The Managerial State by John Clarke Pdf

Author : James Burnham
Publisher : Lume Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1839013184

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The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham Pdf

Written in 1941, Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers.

Author : William G. Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029182170

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Chester I. Barnard and the Guardians of the Managerial State by William G. Scott Pdf

This book provides the first critical analysis of Chester Barnard's ideology - an ideology that is now fundamental to the orthodox beliefs of the modern managerial class. Over fifty years in his path-breaking Functions of the Executive, Barnard wrote about the moral authority of the corporate executive elite to govern the emerging managerial state. Scott reexamines Barnard's influential arguments in the light of changing times. -- book jacket.

Author : Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira,Peter Spink
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 155587374X

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Reforming the State by Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira,Peter Spink Pdf

The authors of this volume explore general themes of managerial public administration and government reform, then focus on specific Latin American experiences and trends. Discussions of accountability, empowerment, citizen values and new institutions are also included.

Author : PH D Paul Edward Gottfried
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1400816149

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After Liberalism by PH D Paul Edward Gottfried Pdf

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Author : Sharon Gewirtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134590629

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The Managerial School by Sharon Gewirtz Pdf

The relationship between welfare and the state has undergone a sustained process of reconfiguration over the past two decades and managerialism has played a key role in this process. In education, parents are now seen as consumers and schools as small businesses, their income dependent on their success in attracting customers within competitive local 'markets'. At the same time, management practices borrowed from business, such as target setting and performance monitoring, now play a key role in regulating schools. What kinds of schools are the reforms producing? What impact are they having on school culture and values? What are the social justice implications of applying a business model to the provision of schooling? In The Managerial School Sharon Gerwirtz draws on in-depth interviews with teachers in a range of secondary schools and close observation of school practices to try to answer these questions.Through a comparison of Conservative and New Labour policies, she argues that New Labour's 'third way' for education is a contradictory mix of neo-liberal, authoritarian and humanistic strands that is not in any real sense a new educational settlement. This empirically based account of over a decade of education reform offers a unique insight into the effects of managerialism on schools and a hard-hitting analysis of the inherent tensions in a system that undoubtedly perpetrates social injustice.

Author : Jacqueline Vaughn,Eric Edwin Otenyo
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 0763746568

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Managerial Discretion in Government Decision Making by Jacqueline Vaughn,Eric Edwin Otenyo Pdf

Managerial Discretion In Government Decision Making: Beyond The Street Level Provides A Comprehensive Discussion Of Managerial And Executive Discretion At All Levels Of Government. Beginning With A Discussion Of Moving Beyond Street-Level Discourse, This Book Sets The Stage For Studying Managerial Discretion. It Examines Aspects Of Expertise In Discretionary Decision Making At The Federal Level, Including Several Case Examples To Account For The Wide Usage Of Executive Orders In Managerial Positions, And Examines The Formal Roles Of Managers At State Government Levels, While Highlighting The Variations Among State Managers In Their Usage Of Discretion, With Examples Of State Managers With Too Much Discretion. Next The Book Identifies Key Aspects Of Managerial Discretion In Local Governments, Including Information On The Applicability Of Discretion In School Districts And Its Implications In Decision Making, Discusses The Myriad Ways In Which Managers In Local Jurisdictions Either Individually Or Collectively Make Decisions Within The Parameters Of State Laws, Board Regulations, And/Or Council Ordinances, And Concludes With A Discussion Of How Much Discretion Managers Should Have And Dangers Inherent In Providing Managers With Too Much Discretion, And Reinforces The Discourses On Accountability In Public Organizations.

Author : Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674417687

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The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Pdf

The role of large-scale business enterprise—big business and its managers—during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution.

Author : Paul Edward Gottfried
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691089829

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After Liberalism by Paul Edward Gottfried Pdf

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Author : Alfred C. Stepan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868926

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The State and Society by Alfred C. Stepan Pdf

Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy which he shows to be particularly well suited for understanding political developments in the Iberian countries and their former Latin-American colonies. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Paul Gottfried
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691059837

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After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried Pdf

In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786499561

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The New Class War by Michael Lind Pdf

An Evening Standard's Book of the Year 'A tour de force.' David Goodhart All over the West, party systems have shattered and governments have been thrown into turmoil. The embattled establishment claims that these populist insurgencies seek to overthrow liberal democracy. The truth is no less alarming but is more complex: Western democracies are being torn apart by a new class war. In this controversial and groundbreaking analysis, Michael Lind, one of America's leading thinkers, debunks the idea that the insurgencies are primarily the result of bigotry and reveals the real battle lines. He traces how the breakdown of class compromises has left large populations in Western democracies politically adrift. We live in a globalized world that benefits elites in high income 'hubs' while suppressing the economic and social interests of those in more traditional lower-wage 'heartlands'. A bold framework for understanding the world, The New Class War argues that only a fresh class settlement can avert a never-ending cycle of clashes between oligarchs and populists - and save democracy.

Author : Nick Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781134765706

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The Transformation of Welfare States? by Nick Ellison Pdf

'Globalization', institutions and welfare regimes -- The challenge of globalization -- Globalization and welfare regime change -- Towards workfare? : changing labour market policies -- Labour market policies in social democratic and continental regimes -- Population ageing, GEPs and changing pensions systems -- Pensions policies in continental and social regimes -- Conclusion : welfare regimes in a liberalizing world.