Kittens are Evil by Charlotte Pell
The 'Little Heresies' seminars provide an important public platform to debate the future of public services. This book takes its title from the first seminar, 'Kittens are Evil', suggesting that what appear to be well-intentioned policies not only create perverse incentives but also lasting damage to the social fabric. Public services' management practices, underpinned by neoliberal thinking, were imposed by Margaret Thatcher. Successive governments continue to be duped into believing, against plenty of evidence to the contrary, that New Public Management, as it is now called, works; it work much better if people tried harder to become more machine-like, and to make more of an effort to eat less, exercise more, to stop getting older, to be more enterprising, to tick the right boxes, to remember their unique customer reference number, be digital by default and, frankly, become more service-shaped. The pros and cons of New Public Management are already well-documented in the academic sector. In this first publication from the Little Heresies series, eight heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the effects of neoliberal thinking across a wide range of services; of marketisation, target and league tables, of family interventions, designer-babies, and ineffective management practices designed by Whitehall.
Toby Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership and Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. His aim is to help improve the funding, commissioning, and performance management of social interventions across the public, private, and voluntary sectors. Jan Myers is Associate Professor in the Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University. Her research covers organisational behaviour and HR, and leadership, individual, and organisational development. Charlotte Pell is a visiting fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She edited Delivering Public Services that Work: Volume 2 and Kittens Are Evil and has written for many blogs and other publications on public services. Rob Wilson is professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University with research interests in measurement and performance in public management, co-creation, and collaboration of services, and data and information sharing in public services and public service reform.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911193081 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911193082 |
| Title | Kittens are Evil |
| Author | Charlotte Pell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Triarchy Press |
| Year published | 2016-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
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