New Perspectives on Public Services

The book examines two elements, place and technology, that are under-researched in the public management literature. It shows how basic public services both shape and are shaped by the specifics of places and technological change by bringing together a wide range of theory and internationally comparative empirical material.

1. Introduction: Where is the Government? ; 2. Theories of Place and Technology: a Review ; 3. Placeshifts: Technologies and the Scale of Change ; 4. Governments as Placemakers: Modalities and Effects ; 5. Capital Flight - Moving Out from the Big City ; 6. Save our Hospital! ; 7. Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Identities ; 8. The Police ; 9. Discussion and Conclusions ; Annex A: Technology, Place and Task (TPT): Brief Summary of a Research Programme