Modernizing Governance : New Labour, Policy and Society

by Janet Newman

• ISBN13: 9780761969891
• ISBN10: 0761969896
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-03
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This timely book explores the politics and policies of New Labour and asks how far these represent a shift in the governance of the United Kingdom. It offers critical interpretations of core themes in Labour's policy agenda, with chapters on: the Third Way, Modernizing Government, Partnership, Participation and Inclusion.Modernizing Governance examines how policy is being reshaped and public management realigned, and assesses the consequences for relationships between the state and citizen, between government and public services, and between organizations and their users.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of abbreviations	x
Introduction: new Labour and the question of governance	1	(1)
Governance and new Labour	1	(3)
Key questions	4	(1)
Politics, policy and culture: outlining the approach	5	(3)
The structure of the book	8	(3)
Understanding governance	11	(15)
Forms of analysis: political, economic and social governance	12	(4)
Theoretical challenges	16	(6)
New Labour, new governance?	22	(4)
The dynamics of institutional change	26	(14)
Conceptualising `change'	26	(5)
Exploring tensions in the process of change	31	(2)
Mapping models of governance	33	(4)
The dynamics of change	37	(3)
The Third Way: modernising social democracy	40	(15)
Constructing the Third Way	40	(6)
Modernisation: putting the `new' into new Labour?	46	(6)
Modernising governance?	52	(3)
Modernising government: the politics of reform	55	(28)
Neo-liberal governance	55	(3)
Labour's modernisation of government	58	(4)
Modernising the policy process	62	(10)
Modernising the state: towards multi-level governance	72	(6)
A new style of governance?	78	(5)
Modernising services: the politics of performance	83	(21)
Public services: partners or agents?	84	(2)
Regulating professional work	86	(7)
Shaping behaviour: regulation and self-regulation	93	(2)
Labour's approach to managing change	95	(4)
Implementing change: trust and contract	99	(5)
Joined-up government: the politics of partnership	104	(23)
Governing through partnership: a paradigm shift?	104	(4)
The limits of partnership	108	(4)
The dynamics of partnership working	112	(4)
Power, trust and leadership	116	(5)
Organisational cultures and professional identities	121	(3)
Towards a new governance?	124	(3)
Public participation: the politics of representation	127	(16)
The Third Way and democratic renewal	128	(2)
The challenge to representative democracy	130	(3)
Equality, diversity and the politics of difference	133	(3)
New Labour, modernisation and the limits to public participation	136	(3)
Towards a new form of governance?	139	(4)
Remaking civil society: the politics of inclusion	143	(18)
Renewing civil society	144	(2)
Re-building community capacity	146	(2)
Remaking welfare subjects	148	(3)
From equality to social inclusion	151	(3)
A modern British people?	154	(4)
The politics of inclusion	158	(3)
Conclusion: the politics of governance	161	(20)
New Labour and governance	161	(2)
The paradoxes of modernisation	163	(2)
Governance as a constructed and contested domain	165	(3)
The dispersal of power	168	(2)
Towards a new political settlement?	170	(1)
Reconceptualising governance	171	(2)
Re-imagining modernisation	173	(8)
Bibliography	181	(13)
Index	194