Creating Citizen Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Survices

by John H. Clarke, Janet E. Newman, Nick Smith

Creating Citizen-Consumers explores a range of theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. It draws on recent controversies about choice to examine the tensions of modernising public services to meet the demands of a consumer society. The book offers a fresh and challenging understanding of the relationships between people and services, and argues for a model based on interdependence, respect and partnership rather than choice.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006