Daniel Farnham - Böcker

'There is no doubt about the quality of the authors' understanding and appreciation of the political processes and influences at work...The chapters on local government and the National Health Service are model analyses...' - RSA Journal Managing the New Public Services provides an introduction to, and assessment of, the major organisational changes in Britain's public services since the late 1970s which have collectively been identified as the emergence of a new managerialism. The editors draw particular attention to both the similarities and differences between private sector and public service management and to the impact of the increasing politicisation of public management on the traditional neutrality of public officials.

Contractarianism in some form has been at the center of recent debates in moral and political philosophy. Jean Hampton was one of the most gifted philosophers involved in these debates and provided both important criticisms of prominent contractarian theories plus powerful defenses and applications of the core ideas of contractarianism. In these essays, she brought her distinctive approach, animated by concern for the intrinsic worth of persons, to bear on topics such as guilt, punishment, self-respect, family relations, and the maintenance and justification of the state. Edited by Daniel Farnham, this collection is an essential contribution to understanding the problems and prospectus of contractarianism in moral, legal and political philosophy.