Author : Peter Triantafillou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152610377X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Book Synopsis Neoliberal power and public management reforms by : Peter Triantafillou
Download or read book Neoliberal power and public management reforms written by Peter Triantafillou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.