Acknowledgements

Looking for Consensus?: Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management

ISBN: 978-1-78190-724-5, eISBN: 978-1-78190-725-2

ISSN: 2045-7944

Publication date: 30 December 2013

Citation

(2013), "Acknowledgements", Looking for Consensus?: Civil Society, Social Movements and Crises for Public Management (Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management, Vol. 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2045-7944(2013)0000002014

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We would like to thank those who have contributed to this second volume in the series. We are, also, very appreciative of the support we have received from Emerald Group Publishing Limited and from our publisher – Tom Dark – who has been very patient with us both.

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Looking for consensus?: civil society, social movements and crises for public management
Critical perspectives on international public sector management
Looking for consensus?: Civil society, social movements and crises for public management
Copyright Page
List of contributors
Editorial Advisory Board
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From austerity to acceptance?
Part One The public policy context: International trends
‘Who’s responsible for the state we’re in?’ Government and public sector: Accountability and responsibility in an era of crisis and austerity
Local government in England: Fault lines in ethical governance?
Rethinking urban regeneration? Insights into the future through use of the Strategic-relational approach
The retreat of the state: The challenges faced by regeneration managers in a climate of austerity ☆ This chapter is updated and adapted from the paper ‘From a framework to a toolkit: Urban regeneration in an age of austerity’, published in the Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 6(4), 339–353. ISSN 1752-9638.
Part Two Civil society and social movements: Consensus or crisis?
The State of higher education and training in Egypt post the Arab Spring ☆ An earlier version of this chapter was presented as a paper at the 2012 European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) Conference, Bergen, Norway, September 5–8, 2012.
Resist, Refuse, Occupy
Civil Society, the left and community organising: Towards a progressive politics
Part Three Review and reflection
‘The way we do things around here’: Personal and epistemological reflections of the influence of inter-disciplinary identity on effective knowledge leadership for tackling inequalities
Conclusion: Policy and practice implications