New Labour's modernization in the public sector: a neo-Durkheimian approach and the case of mental health services

Five accounts of New Labour's style of public management reform can be identified in the recent academic literature. Although each has merits, none is wholly convincing. After a discussion of their scope and limits, this article offers a distinctive account, grounded in wider social theory, which also synthesizes the most valuable elements in the five mainstream accounts. The article then uses the case of New Labour's reforms of the mental health system to support this account, showing how it exemplifies each of the 15 major strands of reform activity that have together been the hallmark of what in practice New Labour has meant by 'modernization'. This provides the basis for a critique of the limits and dangers of the New Labour style.     

This may hurt a bit. Congress begins to ask why the U.S. subsidizes insurance coverage for those at the top of the heap

Congress begins to ask why the U.S. subsidizes insurance coverage for those at the top of the heap.     

中日关系进入新的历史转型期——兼论两国增强战略互信的路径选择

中日两国在明显增多的不和谐噪音中迎来了邦交正常化40周年。人们注意到,近年来两国在各个领域的交流、合作取得巨大进展的同时,一些结构性的矛盾与对立逐渐凸显。中日两国缺乏战略互信已成为影响双边关系健康、稳定发展的最大障碍。一定要从战略高度认识和把握中日关系的大局,扩大两国共同战略利益的交汇点,克服彼此间的隔阂和疑虑,将中日关系推进到新的阶段。