État: Correct
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Janice Gross Stein | Sociologie | House of Anansi Press | Date de parution: 2001 | ISBN-13: 9780887846687 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais | 295 pages
The Cult of Efficiency eloquently investigates our most fundamental concerns in an era where waste is a sin but the public trust remains sacred. Janice Gross Stein reveals how the discussion of efficiency in the delivery of public goods, such as education and health care, has risen to prominence in post-industrial society. She shows that when it becomes an end rather than a means, a value often more important than other values, and when we no longer ask the questions, "efficient at what?" or "for whom?" efficiency becomes a cult.
Stein provocatively demonstrates that efficiency is often a cloak for political agendas. In public schools, community clinics, and hospitals, she witnesses citizens engaging directly with the arguments of our times, redrawing the face of the state as it explores new ways of delivering public goods. They are calling not only for efficiency but for accountability and choice as they confront the dilemmas of democratic processes in a global age. By delivering this powerful message, The Cult of Efficiency does nothing less than set a new public agenda for citizens and their leaders alike.
JANICE GROSS STEIN is the Harrowston Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. A University Professor, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the author of more than eighty books and articles. She was awarded the Edgar Furniss Prize for outstanding contribution to the study of international security and civil-military education. She is the mother of two sons and lives in Toronto.
