Tony Cutler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony Cutler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony |
| FAMILY NAME | Cutler |
| SIGNATURE | CUTLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Governmentality and benchmarking
The paper discusses the application of Foucault’s conception of «governmental» power to the technique of benchmarking. It uses an historical case study, analysing the Architects and Building Branch, a specialist unit within the Ministry of Education advising on school architecture. The paper shows that the Branch’s development and diffusion of «best practice» in school building could be seen as a deployment of «governmental» power. However, a cru…
New Managerialism and New Public Sector Management
Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions
This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Fina…
But is it ‘Fair'? The UK Coalition Government, ‘Fairness’ and the ‘Reform’ of Public Sector Pensions
The article analyses arguments for reform of public sector pension schemes by the UK Coalition government on the grounds that existing provision is ‘unfair’. Three dimensions of ‘fairness’ are discussed. That between public and private sector provision; between the costs to public sector employees and other taxpayers; and between members of public sector schemes. The article argues that there are serious weaknesses in the Coalition position on ea…
Economic Liberal or Arch Planner? Enoch Powell and the Political Economy of the Hospital Plan
The article critically analyses the view that Enoch Powell's promotion of the 1962 Hospital Plan was strategically incoherent. It has been argued that there was a contradiction between Powell's economic liberal position on public expenditure and his support for the Plan as a major long-term public sector capital expenditure programme. The article argues that Powell's promotion of the Plan was designed to be part of a consistent economic liberal s…
Performance Management in Public Services ‘Before’ New Public Management
This article discusses two accounts of the history of performance management in public services. Performance management is defined as the use of performance indicators and management prescriptions, designed to improve such measured performance, to achieve public service performance objectives. In one account, particularly found in the prescriptive New Public Management (NPM) literature, performance management in public services is seen as effecti…
A New Epoch of Individualization? Problems With the ‘Personalization’ of Public Sector Services
The paper discusses the role of the concept of ‘personalization’ in New Labour policy on the reform of public sector services. The analysis points to the contradictory ways in which the concept has been used in both policy statements, in the work of various authors, and in the think tank Demos, which has been closely associated with the diffusion of the concept. The correlative uncertainties with respect to implementation are discussed and relate…
Managerialism Reformed? New Labour and Public Sector Management
Mutual Benefits or Managerial Control? The Role of Appraisal in Performance Related Pay for Teachers
In its proposals for a Performance Related Pay (PRP) scheme for teachers the Labour Government has presented appraisal as having a dual role. It is to be used to determine the pay of teachers making reference to quantitative targets; and to facilitate teachers'professional development. This article examines the tensions between these two functions of appraisal
The politics of quasi-markets
The article argues that research on quasi-markets is dominated by the 'evaluative' approach where quasi-markets are judged against criteria such as efficiency, choice and equity. It argues that this approach fails to examine important polatical differences between quasi-markets. This the sis is illustrated by reference to the differences in the quasi-markets in health on the one hand and in secondary and higher education on the other. The article…
Does Safety Pay? A Critical Account of the Health and Safety Executive Document
A central question in health and safety is the relationship between good practice and the financial performance of capitalist enterprises. Two alternative views have been presented on this issue: in one, good health and safety management is seen as contributing to sound enterprise finan cial performance; in the other, an inherent contradiction is seen to exist between expenditure on health and safety and the desire on the part of the employers to…
Vocational Training and British Economic Performance
This paper compares two influential `explanations' of Britain's economic problems - one, the British Labour Problem, points to the attitudes of British workers and their unions as the cause of poor productivity, the other, the British Training Problem, points to the low level and poor quality of vocational training in the UK as the source of economic ills. The paper argues that, despite apparent differences, the two discourses are very similar, s…
The romance of 'labour
The student and layman definition of psychology
Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions
This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Fina…
A New Epoch of Individualization? Problems With the ‘Personalization’ of Public Sector Services
The paper discusses the role of the concept of ‘personalization’ in New Labour policy on the reform of public sector services. The analysis points to the contradictory ways in which the concept has been used in both policy statements, in the work of various authors, and in the think tank Demos, which has been closely associated with the diffusion of the concept. The correlative uncertainties with respect to implementation are discussed and relate…
The romance of 'labour
Managerialism Reformed? New Labour and Public Sector Management
Vocational Training and British Economic Performance
This paper compares two influential `explanations' of Britain's economic problems - one, the British Labour Problem, points to the attitudes of British workers and their unions as the cause of poor productivity, the other, the British Training Problem, points to the low level and poor quality of vocational training in the UK as the source of economic ills. The paper argues that, despite apparent differences, the two discourses are very similar, s…
Does Safety Pay? A Critical Account of the Health and Safety Executive Document
A central question in health and safety is the relationship between good practice and the financial performance of capitalist enterprises. Two alternative views have been presented on this issue: in one, good health and safety management is seen as contributing to sound enterprise finan cial performance; in the other, an inherent contradiction is seen to exist between expenditure on health and safety and the desire on the part of the employers to…
Performance Management in Public Services ‘Before’ New Public Management
This article discusses two accounts of the history of performance management in public services. Performance management is defined as the use of performance indicators and management prescriptions, designed to improve such measured performance, to achieve public service performance objectives. In one account, particularly found in the prescriptive New Public Management (NPM) literature, performance management in public services is seen as effecti…
The politics of quasi-markets
The article argues that research on quasi-markets is dominated by the 'evaluative' approach where quasi-markets are judged against criteria such as efficiency, choice and equity. It argues that this approach fails to examine important polatical differences between quasi-markets. This the sis is illustrated by reference to the differences in the quasi-markets in health on the one hand and in secondary and higher education on the other. The article…
But is it ‘Fair'? The UK Coalition Government, ‘Fairness’ and the ‘Reform’ of Public Sector Pensions
The article analyses arguments for reform of public sector pension schemes by the UK Coalition government on the grounds that existing provision is ‘unfair’. Three dimensions of ‘fairness’ are discussed. That between public and private sector provision; between the costs to public sector employees and other taxpayers; and between members of public sector schemes. The article argues that there are serious weaknesses in the Coalition position on ea…
The student and layman definition of psychology
The romance of 'labour
Vocational Training and British Economic Performance
This paper compares two influential `explanations' of Britain's economic problems - one, the British Labour Problem, points to the attitudes of British workers and their unions as the cause of poor productivity, the other, the British Training Problem, points to the low level and poor quality of vocational training in the UK as the source of economic ills. The paper argues that, despite apparent differences, the two discourses are very similar, s…
Does Safety Pay? A Critical Account of the Health and Safety Executive Document
A central question in health and safety is the relationship between good practice and the financial performance of capitalist enterprises. Two alternative views have been presented on this issue: in one, good health and safety management is seen as contributing to sound enterprise finan cial performance; in the other, an inherent contradiction is seen to exist between expenditure on health and safety and the desire on the part of the employers to…
The politics of quasi-markets
The article argues that research on quasi-markets is dominated by the 'evaluative' approach where quasi-markets are judged against criteria such as efficiency, choice and equity. It argues that this approach fails to examine important polatical differences between quasi-markets. This the sis is illustrated by reference to the differences in the quasi-markets in health on the one hand and in secondary and higher education on the other. The article…
Managerialism Reformed? New Labour and Public Sector Management
Mutual Benefits or Managerial Control? The Role of Appraisal in Performance Related Pay for Teachers
In its proposals for a Performance Related Pay (PRP) scheme for teachers the Labour Government has presented appraisal as having a dual role. It is to be used to determine the pay of teachers making reference to quantitative targets; and to facilitate teachers'professional development. This article examines the tensions between these two functions of appraisal
A New Epoch of Individualization? Problems With the ‘Personalization’ of Public Sector Services
The paper discusses the role of the concept of ‘personalization’ in New Labour policy on the reform of public sector services. The analysis points to the contradictory ways in which the concept has been used in both policy statements, in the work of various authors, and in the think tank Demos, which has been closely associated with the diffusion of the concept. The correlative uncertainties with respect to implementation are discussed and relate…
Economic Liberal or Arch Planner? Enoch Powell and the Political Economy of the Hospital Plan
The article critically analyses the view that Enoch Powell's promotion of the 1962 Hospital Plan was strategically incoherent. It has been argued that there was a contradiction between Powell's economic liberal position on public expenditure and his support for the Plan as a major long-term public sector capital expenditure programme. The article argues that Powell's promotion of the Plan was designed to be part of a consistent economic liberal s…
Performance Management in Public Services ‘Before’ New Public Management
This article discusses two accounts of the history of performance management in public services. Performance management is defined as the use of performance indicators and management prescriptions, designed to improve such measured performance, to achieve public service performance objectives. In one account, particularly found in the prescriptive New Public Management (NPM) literature, performance management in public services is seen as effecti…
Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today Routledge Library Editions
This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Fina…
But is it ‘Fair'? The UK Coalition Government, ‘Fairness’ and the ‘Reform’ of Public Sector Pensions
The article analyses arguments for reform of public sector pension schemes by the UK Coalition government on the grounds that existing provision is ‘unfair’. Three dimensions of ‘fairness’ are discussed. That between public and private sector provision; between the costs to public sector employees and other taxpayers; and between members of public sector schemes. The article argues that there are serious weaknesses in the Coalition position on ea…
New Managerialism and New Public Sector Management
Governmentality and benchmarking
The paper discusses the application of Foucault’s conception of «governmental» power to the technique of benchmarking. It uses an historical case study, analysing the Architects and Building Branch, a specialist unit within the Ministry of Education advising on school architecture. The paper shows that the Branch’s development and diffusion of «best practice» in school building could be seen as a deployment of «governmental» power. However, a cru…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public sector (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works)