Professionals under Pressure : : The Reconfiguration of Professional Work in Changing Public Services /

Professionals under Pressure : : The Reconfiguration of Professional Work in Changing Public Services / / ed. by Mirko Noordegraaf, Bram Steijn.

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Over the past decades, professional public services have been burdened with demands for accountability and with businesslike managerial systems that are endemic to the private sector. In this volume, a team of international experts shows that these influences are relative. They present theoretical a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ackroyd, Stephen,
Bekkers, Victor,
Gulikers, Huub,
Hoijtink, Marc,
Hupe, Peter,
Kwak, Arie-Jan,
Newman, Janet,
Noordegraaf, Mirko,
Smullen, Amanda,
Steijn, Bram,
Tonkens, Evelien,
Tummers, Lars,
Vrielink, Mirjan Oude,
de Graaf, Gjalt,
van Berkel, Rik,
van Bockel, Jeroen,
van der Aa, Paul,
van der Krogt, Theo,
van der Meulen, Martijn,
van der Veen, Romke,
van der Wal, Zeger,
HerausgeberIn:
Noordegraaf, Mirko,
Steijn, Bram,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Care and Welfare Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Professions, professionals and the ‘new’ government policies. A reflection on the last 30 years
  • 3. Professionals, power and the reform of public services
  • 4. Professionals dealing with pressures
  • 5. A managerial assault on professionalism? Professionals in changing welfare states
  • 6. Legal professionals under pressure. Legal professional ideology and New Public Management
  • 7. Institutionalizing professional conflicts through financial reforms. The case of DBCS in Dutch mental healthcare
  • 8. Public professionals and policy alienation
  • 9. Loyalties of public sector professionals
  • 10. Democratizing social work. From New Public Management to democratic professionalism
  • 11. Bounded professionalism. Why self-regulation is part of the problem
  • 12. Control of front-line workers in welfare agencies. Towards professionalism?
  • 13. Professionalization of (police) leaders. Contested control
  • 14. Conclusions and ways forward
  • About the editors and authors

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