Kittens Are Evil II: Little Heresies in Public Policy
The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars. Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector. To suggest that they create perverse incentives and lasting damage to the social fabric is still a heresy. In this second volume (a companion to Kittens Are Evil), nine heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the disastrous effects of wrong thinking and ineffective practice in areas like: standardisation, professionalisation in public services, measurement in public services, so-called evidence-based policy-making, money creation, philanthropy, and the third/charitable sector. Each heretic offers an alternative way of thinking about and developing policies. Government would do well to listen to these experts in designing practices for the future.
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Kittens Are Evil II: Little Heresies in Public Policy
The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars. Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector. To suggest that they create perverse incentives and lasting damage to the social fabric is still a heresy. In this second volume (a companion to Kittens Are Evil), nine heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the disastrous effects of wrong thinking and ineffective practice in areas like: standardisation, professionalisation in public services, measurement in public services, so-called evidence-based policy-making, money creation, philanthropy, and the third/charitable sector. Each heretic offers an alternative way of thinking about and developing policies. Government would do well to listen to these experts in designing practices for the future.
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The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This is the second published collection of talks given at those seminars. Both books takes their title from the first seminar, Kittens are Evil: it is still widely believed that private sector management methods and policies work well in the public sector. To suggest that they create perverse incentives and lasting damage to the social fabric is still a heresy. In this second volume (a companion to Kittens Are Evil), nine heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the disastrous effects of wrong thinking and ineffective practice in areas like: standardisation, professionalisation in public services, measurement in public services, so-called evidence-based policy-making, money creation, philanthropy, and the third/charitable sector. Each heretic offers an alternative way of thinking about and developing policies. Government would do well to listen to these experts in designing practices for the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781911193784
Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd
Publication date: 09/01/2020
Sold by: INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 108
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Toby Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership and Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. His aim is to help improve the funding, commissioning, and performance management of social interventions across the public, private, and voluntary sectors. Jan Myers is Associate Professor in the Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University. Her research covers organisational behaviour and HR, and leadership, individual, and organisational development. Charlotte Pell is a visiting fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She edited Delivering Public Services that Work: Volume 2 and Kittens Are Evil and has written for many blogs and other publications on public services. Rob Wilson is professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University with research interests in measurement and performance in public management, co-creation, and collaboration of services, and data and information sharing in public services and public service reform.

Table of Contents

Foreword Editorial Bespoke by Default: The Future for Public Services Death of the Professional: The Future is Generic The Age of Impact: Why Charitable Giving Is Broken The Organisation is Dead – Long Live the Network Evidence isn't Enough Governments Should Create Our Money, Not Banks Driven to Distraction? A slow stroll to help local government re-connect with what matters Managers Nearly Always Measure the Wrong Things About the Editors
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