| Description |
viii, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
CAPSM series |
| Contents |
Mapping contract / Barbara Sullivan -- A society governed by contract? / Barry Hindess -- The economic concept of contract / Geoffrey Brennan -- Contract, status and personhood / Anna Yeatman -- Children: contractual non-persons? / Judy Cashmore -- The hands that sign the paper: women and domestic contracts / Marcia Neave -- New contractualism and the employment relationship in New Zealand / Margaret Wilson -- Service delivery contracts: quality for customers, clients and citizens / Linda McGuire -- The social economy of parent choice and the contract state / David Hogan -- The application of agency theory to public sector management / Catherine Althaus |
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The new institutional economics and reshaping the state in New Zealand / Graham Scott -- The impact of contracts in public management in New Zealand / Alex Matheson -- The new contractualism in New Zealand: chief executive performance agreements / Jonathan Boston -- Crown-tribe relations: contractualism and coexistance in an intercultural context / Paul McHugh -- Reflections on contractualism and coexistance in an intercultural context / Tim Rowse -- Implications, consequences and futures / Glyn Davis |
| Summary |
Are contracts a management fashion, or is something more profound at stake? In this timely study, a range of distinguished authors from Australia and New Zealand debate the 'new contractualism'. Some believe contracts will alter radically the relation between individuals and governance structures. Others are more cautious, seeing in contracts an extension of longstanding liberal democratic practice. Combining theoretical insight with the observations of practitioners, The New Contractualism? explores contracting as a potentially new way to organise public and private life |
| Analysis |
Australia overseas comparisons |
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Children |
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Contracting out |
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Contracts |
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Employment contracts |
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Federal issue |
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Government contracts |
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Indigenous populations |
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Liberalism |
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New Zealand |
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State and the individual |
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Women |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 239-264 |
| Subject |
Contracting out -- Australia.
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Contracting out -- New Zealand.
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Contracts -- Australia.
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Contracts -- New Zealand.
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Labor contract -- Australia.
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Labor contract -- New Zealand.
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Labor contract.
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Social institutions -- Australia.
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Social institutions -- New Zealand.
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| Author |
Davis, Glyn.
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Sullivan, Barbara, 1952-
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Yeatman, Anna.
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Griffith University. Centre for Australian Public Sector Management.
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| LC no. |
98172799 |
| ISBN |
0732944422 (paperback) |
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