The new bureaucracy : : Quality assurance and its critics / / Max Travers.
There has already been much discussion and critique of the New Public Management, and the impact of auditing and inspection on professional work in schools, hospitals, local government and the police. This study, by a qualitative sociologist, uses interpretive methods to examine this new form of reg...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Quality assurance as a new occupation
- Professionals and quality
- Audit and inspection
- Organisations and accountability
- The problem of red tape
- Critical responses
- Conclusion: learning to live with regulation
- References
- Index