Public Service on the Brink

The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with no direct experience of working in the public sector.
With cuts in public spending by the coalition government and "austerity" programmes being imposed in Britain and abroad, the book could not be m...