“This closely argued and lively polemic is recommended for all policymakers and
practitioners concerned with educational leadership and change” BJET “Thrupp and …

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a
capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure …

Disabled people experience profound discrimination and social disadvantage, but this has
not generated substantial interest among mainstream sociologists. Barnes, Mercer and …

Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair
education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive …

Social work has become a business. The traditional distinction drawn between social work
as a non-commercial activity in the public and voluntary sectors of the welfare state and …

This article examines the relationship between managerialism and academic
professionalism in English universities. Managerialist ideology has introduced to higher …

This book is about change in the management of public services–how much of it and what
consequences. For over two decades the goal of restructuring welfare provision has been at …

Recent reform of the healthcare sector in New Zealand involved the corporatization of public
hospitals, and the contractualization of social relations between and within institutions …

It is often assumed in the literature on public management reforms that radical changes in
values, work and organization have occurred or are under way. In this paper our aim is to …

The major shifts in public policy during the past two decades have led to equally momentous
changes in policy provision and its supporting structures. This has been characterized …