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• catalog abstract "As New Zealanders know only too well, their country has been transformed in the last decade. A protected economy has been opened to international market forces. The public service has been revolutionised. Users pay. Hospitals have become 'Crown Health Enterprises'. School fees in a public system have become routine. The labour force, 'freed' from union control, has been subjected to free market forces. Unemployment has ballooned but assistance to the unemployed has reduced. Plastic cards identify those 'targeted' for welfare. The state, which was supposed to be getting smaller, seems to have become more intrusive. Maybe the reforming governments since 1984 believed they would take the electorate with them. If so, they were wrong. They took a leap into the dark and misjudged the opinions of the people they represented. Or maybe the politicians and their advisers thought their simple and elegant market theories would produce the goods, and thus convince the people. If so, they were wrong again. Thinking they were marching steadily forward, the way ahead illuminated by their ideas, they were, once more, leaping into the dark. Things kept turning out contrary to their confident predictions. In this volume of essays the changes are examined with sceptical eyes by experts in the various fields which have been reformed and revolutionised. The writers do not always agree on the detail of their criticisms and suggestions; but all are united in their belief that much clumsiness, ineptitude and lack of thought has characterised the revolutionaries. Readers will need to decide for themselves.".
• catalog contributor b4939955.
• catalog contributor b4939956.
• catalog coverage "New Zealand History 1945-".
• catalog coverage "New Zealand Politics and government 1972-".
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "As New Zealanders know only too well, their country has been transformed in the last decade. A protected economy has been opened to international market forces. The public service has been revolutionised. Users pay. Hospitals have become 'Crown Health Enterprises'. School fees in a public system have become routine. The labour force, 'freed' from union control, has been subjected to free market forces. Unemployment has ballooned but assistance to the unemployed has reduced. Plastic cards identify those 'targeted' for welfare. The state, which was supposed to be getting smaller, seems to have become more intrusive.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Maybe the reforming governments since 1984 believed they would take the electorate with them. If so, they were wrong. They took a leap into the dark and misjudged the opinions of the people they represented. Or maybe the politicians and their advisers thought their simple and elegant market theories would produce the goods, and thus convince the people. If so, they were wrong again. Thinking they were marching steadily forward, the way ahead illuminated by their ideas, they were, once more, leaping into the dark. Things kept turning out contrary to their confident predictions. In this volume of essays the changes are examined with sceptical eyes by experts in the various fields which have been reformed and revolutionised. The writers do not always agree on the detail of their criticisms and suggestions; but all are united in their belief that much clumsiness, ineptitude and lack of thought has characterised the revolutionaries. Readers will need to decide for themselves.".
• catalog description "The case for politics and the state in New Zealand : an introduction / A. Sharp -- Neo-liberalism, economic internationalisation and the contemporary state in New Zealand / N. Haworth -- The role of the state in administration / J. Martin -- The state and education / R. Dale -- The state and welfare / S. St. John -- The state and health-care reform / G. Fougere -- New Zealand's workforce policy : reflections on fairness in the 1990s / M.G. Wilson & A. Enright -- The state, the media and thin democracy / J. Atkinson -- Aotearoa/New Zealand : the anatomy of a state in crisis / J. Kelsey -- State and community / A. Yeatman -- Pride, resentment and change in the state and the economy / A. Sharp".
• catalog extent "255 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1869400968".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press,".
• catalog spatial "New Zealand History 1945-".
• catalog spatial "New Zealand Politics and government 1972-".
• catalog subject "JQ5831 .L43 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "The case for politics and the state in New Zealand : an introduction / A. Sharp -- Neo-liberalism, economic internationalisation and the contemporary state in New Zealand / N. Haworth -- The role of the state in administration / J. Martin -- The state and education / R. Dale -- The state and welfare / S. St. John -- The state and health-care reform / G. Fougere -- New Zealand's workforce policy : reflections on fairness in the 1990s / M.G. Wilson & A. Enright -- The state, the media and thin democracy / J. Atkinson -- Aotearoa/New Zealand : the anatomy of a state in crisis / J. Kelsey -- State and community / A. Yeatman -- Pride, resentment and change in the state and the economy / A. Sharp".
• catalog title "Leap into the dark : the changing role of the state in New Zealand since 1984 / edited by Andrew Sharp.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".