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Austerity has reconfigured and scaled back the governance and
delivery of public services and negatively affected society's most
vulnerable groups. This book opens up the closed world of English
prisons to examine its impact on prison health governance and
healthcare delivery. It argues that austerity has been a
decade-long, large-scale political experiment that has caused debt
to balloon, eroded the prison health system and perpetuated a cycle
of punishment resulting in sicker prisoners. In short, austerity
has violated prisoners' human rights. Drawing on interviews and
data from existing longitudinal and economic analyses, the book
demonstrates how austerity has resulted in high rates of
recidivism, diminished what remains of the welfare state, and
increased inequality and punitiveness. Despite a decade of failure,
there is a marked political reluctance to dispense with austerity,
and the governmental juggernaut continues to produce the same
result. As the spectre of recession increases, caused in part by
Brexit and COVID-19, these failures are ever more perilous. This
book blends the interdisciplinary perspectives of criminology,
public health, sociology, law, social policy, politics, and
economics to enable greater understanding of the impact of
austerity on health governance, prison healthcare, the prison
workforce, and prisoners' health and safety. It challenges current
policy, practice and thinking, and is a must read for anyone who
wants to reflect on how the political economic structure can affect
the governance and delivery of healthcare services in marginalised
settings, beyond prisons, and indeed beyond England.
Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected
directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government
authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates
around this model of leadership, and how in practice political
leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from
Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices,
and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and
countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and
informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with
other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in
broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages
of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches
are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected
mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will
be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public
policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and
planning.
Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected
directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government
authorities. This book examines the contexts, features and debates
around this model of leadership, and how in practice political
leadership is exercised through it. The book draws on examples from
Europe, the US, and Australasia to examine the impacts, practices,
and debates of mayoral leadership in different cities and
countries. Themes that recur throughout include the formal and
informal powers that mayors exercise, their relationships with
other actors in governance - both inside municipalities and in
broader governance networks - and the advantages and disadvantages
of the mayoral model. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches
are used to build a picture of views of and on directly elected
mayors in different contexts from across the globe. This book will
be a valuable resource for those studying or researching public
policy, public management, urban studies, politics, law, and
planning.
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