Managing Social Policy

This innovative text offers an assessment of the role of management in the restructuring of social welfare in contemporary Britain. In the transformation of the welfare state since the 1970s, management has been accorded a central role. New forms and ideas of management have had profound consequences for: the organization and delivery of public services; the political processes of policy formation; systems of accountability; and the experiences both of the recipients of services and of those working within public sector organizations. Examining the significance of managerialism, this book offers a unique insight into the current shaping of social welfare.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - John Clarke, Allan Cochrane and Eugene McLaughlin Why Management Matters Going About our Business? The Managerialization of Public Services - Janet Newman and John Clarke The New Managerialism and Social Security - Tom Ling Managing the National Health Service - Sylvia Walby and June Greenwell Managing in the Mixed Economy of Care - Mary Langan and John Clarke Managerialism in Education - Ross Fergusson Managing the Criminal Justice System - Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie Managing Change in Local Government - Allan Cochrane Leisure and the New Managerialism - Alan Clarke The Limits of Management: Gender and the Politics of Change - Janet Newman Control, Commitment and Contracts - Norman Flynn Mission Accomplished or Unfinished Business? The Impact of Managerialization - John Clarke, Allan Cochrane and Eugene McLaughlin

About the Author :
Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

Review :
`Raise[s] extremely important issues which make a useful contribution to a debate which has scarcely begun about the proper role of managers and management in public services.... The book locates the rise of management within a social and political context, a crucial and neglected issue. Further, it presents a welcome recognition of the compexity of managerialism.... A comprehensive and critical examination of managerialism. Like all good books, it stimulates, particularly when one does not agree, and some of the chapters deserve to be read and reread′ - Local Government Studies