If democratic citizenship is to become an integral component of public policy and administration, then both the teaching and the actual practice of administration have to move away from traditional concerns with how to accommodate and defuse the popular pressures of citizens, and begin to instil in administrators the skills to increase the democratic capacity of citizens. [...] The book's coherent focus, despite the breadth of its themes, the range of authors, and the diversity of their styles, reflects the array of social forces that need to be brought together if we are to transform the state in a dem- ocratic direction. [...] But by the end of the 1980s the alternative offered by the new right—market freedom—had also proven to be a sham, revealed in practice as a formula for the freeing of greed, the private appropriation of public resources, and the restructuring of taxation to the advantage of those already too rich and powerful for their own good, let alone for the well-being of the society. [...] The Private Secretary's job is to make sure that when the Minister comes into Whitehall he doesn't let the side down and behaves in accordance with the requirements of the institution.6 But just as the minister at the top is socialized to behave in accordance with the requirements of a hierarchically rather than democratically structured ad- ministration, so a similar process occurs at the bottom, [...] Speaking as a member of the generation of '68, I expressed my sense of privilege to have been able to see in the space of one generation such a historic wrong righted; this almost rekindled the radicalism of youth, the sense that alliances of workers, students, and intellectuals actually could 'change the system'.
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- CaOOCEL
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- 323/.042
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- I: POPULAR POWER AND DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION 12
- 1. A Different Kind of State? 13
- 2. Democratic Citizenship and the Future of Public Management 28
- II: BEYOND THE WELFARE STATE: POPULAR PLANNING AND DEMOCRACY 46
- 3. Creating a Developmental State: Reflections on Policy as Process 47
- 4. Transforming the 'Fordist' State 62
- 5. Reforming the Welfare State: The American Experience 77
- 6. Citizenship and Civil Society: Redressing Undemocratic Features of the Welfare State 86
- 7. Capture or Co-management: Democracy and Accountability in Regulatory Agencies 98
- 8. Democracy and Ecology: Envisioning a Transition to a Green Economy 112
- III: AGENCIES FOR DEMOCRATIZATION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES 122
- 9. A New Kind of Knowledge for a New Kind of State 123
- 10. Social Movements and the State: Presentation and Representation 133
- 11. Social Movements and the American State: Legal Mobilization as a Strategy for Democratization 142
- 12. Public-Sector Unions and the Possibilities for Democratic Administration in the US 155
- 13. Democratizing the Local State: Issues for Feminist Practice and the Representation of Women 166
- 14. Political Education for Democratic Administration 176
- IV: PARADOXES OF POWER: CANADA'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE 188
- 15. Moving Beyond the Limited Democracy of Social Democracy 189
- 16. Democratizing Economic Policy Formulation: The Manitoba Experience 197
- 17. Public Participation in Welfare: The Winnipeg Child and Family Services System 206
- 18. Public-Sector Unions and the Prospects for Democratic Reform under the Ontario NDP 219
- 19. Social Movements and the NDP Government of Ontario 230
- 20. Putting Democratic Administration on the Political Agenda 240
