New directions for public services
What future for New Zealand's state?
We are examining emerging approaches to public service delivery from across the globe to understand what a new wave of reform might look like in New Zealand, and to examine how unions can take a proactive role in helping their members adapt and thrive in the future.
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- Efficient at what? It's one of those enduring questions about public services - how do we combine efficiency and democracy, or efficiency and public virtue, or efficiency and... etc etc?Patrick Diamond writes eloquently about this in his new pamphlet on public service reform. Case studying the BBC, he accepts that markets can only go so far, and that they do create tensions with a more traditional set of public service values. His argument is the tried and tested 'trade off' one - essentially that public value... from : simonparker 19th July 2006
- A public service tipping point I've spent the last few weeks down under where, among other things, I've been discussing the future of government and launching a new Demos report on the future of New Zealand's public services. It's left me wondering whether we might not be at one of those historic tipping points, when a combination of social trends and interesting new ideas starts to really transform the way public services work. What's next?When you look over the history of the welfare state, it becomes pretty clear that it... from : simonparker 28th November 2006