Implementing the third way

Clark, David

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“…This reform agenda is broadly consistent with a governance narrative which has identified a shift from centralized state bureaucracies to a market‐orientated agenda to more diffuse forms of networked governance (Rhodes 1997). Nonetheless, the governance of networks by New Labour has been characterized as highly prescriptive, based on centralized systems of performance management (Clark 2004, pp. 507–8).…”

Section: Public Service Modernization: Consequences For Union Practicementioning

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Public Service Modernization and Trade Union Reform: Towards Managerial Led Renewal?

Bach

Givan

2008

Public Administration

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It is a curious feature of the debate about the UK Labour government ' s modernization agenda that the consequences for trade unions have been almost wholly neglected. Focusing on a case study of UNISON, the public service trade union that is dominant in local government and health, this paper argues that UNISON has emulated key aspects of the modernization agenda, adopting a dual strategy to union renewal. It has attempted to rebuild workplace organization, but has placed strong emphasis on managerial-led renewal, adopting many components of the target culture. These measures have created tensions within the organization that mirror some of the broader contradictions of the modernization agenda. The paper concludes by considering the implications of these fi ndings for public service union renewal.

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Section: Public Service Modernization: Consequences For Union Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Public Service Modernization and Trade Union Reform: Towards Managerial Led Renewal?

Bach

Givan

2008

Public Administration

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“…Service-related knowledge includes type of services, the manner of service delivery, name of service providers and service standards time frame, cost and procedure of services (Clark, 2004;Lo, 1993). Acquisition of knowledge by citizens about services depends largely on their exposure to those services (Huque & Ahsan, 2016).…”

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Service Delivery and Accountability of Urban Officials: Evidence from Urban-based Local Government in Bangladesh

2021

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This study compares the state of city government service delivery for communities living in different areas with different level of affluence in Rajshahi City in Bangladesh. Based on the results of a qualitative study, we found a significant service disparity between the affluent and the poor communities. This disparity is due to the inability of the poor to hold service providers accountable, attributable to a lack of knowledge about services and a lack of social status. Lack of quality monitoring and a marked bias in the quality of interactions between the poor and the affluent contribute to the service disparity This disparity is largely invisible to the poor who, instead of comparing themselves with the affluent citizens, compare themselves with a similar class of people.

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“…While the individualism of the American socio culture (Kalu, 2003) called for more participation in policy formulation and administration (Frederickson, 1997), socially oriented Europe and especially the UK (Baubock, 1994;Clark, 2004;Ritzer, 2004) took the opposite route and adopted a macro view of citizenship. While the wide view espoused by the USA assumed that good, virtuous, responsible and participatory citizenship (Kalu, 2003) would create a compatible and effective public administration (Frederickson and Chandler, 1984), the macro view claimed that it was the public administration itself which citizens had to address in order to fill in the gap between government action and its perceived duties toward the society (Racine, 1995).…”

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Is an ethical society possible?

Mostovicz¹,

Kakabadse

2009

Society and Business Review

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to outline concepts that can build an ethical society. Design/methodology/approach -The paper examines selected literature on citizenship through the lens of theory building-blocks. It identifies the role of leadership in society and its importance in developing society into an ethical one. Findings -The paper distinguishes between a ruler, which is defined socially as a hierarchical position, and a leader, which describes a personal quality and is embedded in psychology. Leadership is a developmental process, which is based on the type of choice a leader makes, which implies that two good options are always available from which to select. Nevertheless, one should make choices in accordance with his worldview, looking for affiliation (i.e. the Theta worldview), or looking for achievement (i.e. the Lambda worldview). Consequently, the choices leaders make for societal activities have to fit their own worldview. Pursuing the fit between one's worldview and planned societal or citizenship activities ensures that society continuously improves its ethical behaviour. The paper concludes with examining the meaning of citizenship and the state in modern times. Research limitations/implications -Being a theory-based exploration, the paper does not provide empirical examples of how this theory might be applied in practice. Originality/value -The paper fills a gap in explaining why current theories could not provide an ethical theory of citizenship. It follows by distinguishing between the definitions of a ruler and a leader. In addition, it questions the viewing of a state as a long-term entity.

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Implementing the third way

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Public Service Modernization and Trade Union Reform: Towards Managerial Led Renewal?

Public Service Modernization and Trade Union Reform: Towards Managerial Led Renewal?

Service Delivery and Accountability of Urban Officials: Evidence from Urban-based Local Government in Bangladesh

Is an ethical society possible?

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