Publics, politics and power: Remaking the public in public services.

Newman, Janet and Clarke, John (2009). Publics, politics and power: Remaking the public in public services. London: Sage.

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Abstract

Challenges the notion that publicness and the public sphere is in decline, and analyses the emergence of new forms, sites and practices of publicness and the implications for public services.

Covers:
- shifting formations of nation and the challenges of migration, diversity and faith to universalistic notions of the public
- how the emphasis on of civil society and community are recasting the public domain
- the emergence of hybrid organsiational forms and public private authority
- new strategies for governing publics and public services

Item Type:	Authored Book
Copyright Holders:	Not known
ISBN:	1-4129-4844-4, 978-1-4129-4844-9
Keywords:	publics; publicness; public services; nation; civil society; community; citizenship; markets; hybrid organsiations
Academic Unit/Department:	Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)
Item ID:	16218
Depositing User:	Janet Newman
Date Deposited:	11 May 2009 11:12
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2012 23:37
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/16218

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