Governance, Performance, and Capacity Stress: The Chronic Case of Prison Crowding
Author:   S. Bastow
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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Pages:   278
Publication Date:   28 July 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   S. Bastow
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.728kg
ISBN:  

9781137289155


ISBN 10:   1137289155
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   28 July 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Traditional Explanations of Capacity Stress and Their Limitations 2. A More Holistic Governance-style Approach 3. Performance, Capacity, and Managerialism as a Basis for Legitimacy 4. Measuring and Setting Capacity Standards 5. Senior Ministers, and the Limits of Their Influence to Resolve the Capacity Problem 6. Top Officials, and the Interface between Political and Operational  7. Governors, Staff, and Strategies of Local Adaptation 8. Privately Contracted Prisons – New Setting, Same Condition 9. Chronic Capacity Stress - a Complex Condition Bibliography

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Simon Bastow has been a Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, UK since 2005. He is part of the LSE Public Policy Group, and has worked for more than ten years in applied academic research and teaching, publishing widely across UK and comparative public policy and governance.

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