This article explores the implications for issues of equality and diversity in the Labour government's programme of public service modernization. Networks and partnerships are viewed as a response to the increasing complexity and ambiguity of the public realm. But in the new knowledge-based and...

<title>Abstract</title> The management of cities has to address new risks, insecurities and emergencies. In this article we analyse the management of the aftermath of two crises -- a tornado that hit a part of Birmingham in the UK, and a fireworks explosion that hit a part of the city of Enschede in The...

<italic>This article focuses on public leadership as public-making, drawing on the work of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series on Emergent Publics. The article explores three sets of processes on which publicmaking depends: those of summoning, mediation and mobilization....</italic>

This article explores the implications for issues of equality and diversity in the Labour government’s programme of public service modernization. Networks and partnerships are viewed as a response to the increasing complexity and ambiguity of the public realm. But in the new knowledge-based...