Böcker av Nick Manning

Nick Manning tells the story of the therapeutic community movement, analyses the leading British community, the Henderson Hospital and examines the development of community based therapeutic communities in Australia.

The three objectives of this text are: to provide newcomers with a basic guide to the structures and processes of government; to provide reformers with some understanding of how to work with the grain of the existing institutional arrangements; and to pay tribute to the people who have kept the system running and who are now reforming it.

Many countries have undertaken public administration reform projects. This book analyses the experiences and outcomes of these reforms. The analysis starts with ""what was broken""; and then moves on to assess what reformers actually did and what they achieved and why reformers in different countries in fact did very different things.

Shows that cabinet government is a rational response to risk for three principal reasons, including the threat of dismissal between elections, and sets out the institutional arrangements that make the cabinet a binding device.