‘Towards a new civic bureaucracy’ is now formally published in the UK and Europe. It is available as a hardback, e-publication or for kindle. There is a launch offer of 20% off the hardback and e-publication via the Policy Press website. The book is formally available in North America, Canada and South America in March. […]
Two of my blog posts exploring themes from the book have been published on external sites whose theme, appropriately enough, is transformation. The first is on the Transforming Places website, run by colleagues at Groningen University. The post considers why public bureaucracy struggles to accommodate place-based working and how it needs to embrace it as […]
The idea of New Public Management which was adopted almost worldwide from the 1990s – and which still casts its shadow today – saw the problem of public administration as one of efficiency and long-term affordability. If only services could be provided more cheaply and quicker, then all would be well. For the right, the […]