Central Banks as Bankers to Each Other: Overview, Trends, and Future Directions in Global Official Sector Service Provision

Poland is often pointed to as the regional leader of transition processes with regard to the development and sustainability of civil society. This article presents a critical perspective on the direction in which Polish civil society has evolved after 1989. The author reconstructs existing frames of civil society within Polish elite NGO discourse and argues that one specific understanding of civil society—civil society as third sector/service provision—has gained a hegemonic position, marginalizing other conceptions and thus other functions of civil society. Civil society as moral blueprint, civil society as control power, and civil society as neoliberal gobbledygook are identified as coexisting, potentially counter-hegemonic frames. Thus, the quasi-public function, that is, providing services that the state does not, has become the dominant understanding of civil society suppressing its socialization and political functions, once so prominent in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Distancing and limited resourcefulness: Third sector service provision under austerity localism in the north east of England

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098014566369 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 723-740 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

John Clayton ◽

Catherine Donovan ◽

Jacqui Merchant

Keyword(s):

Service Provision ◽

Third Sector ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

Sector Service

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School psychological and guidance services in Australia: Critical issues and implications for future directions

Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools ◽

10.1017/s1037291100002223 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mardie Whitla ◽

Gordon Walker ◽

Ailsa Drent

Keyword(s):

Service Provision ◽

Educational Development ◽

Psychological Services ◽

School Level ◽

Future Directions ◽

Guidance Services ◽

Counselling Services ◽

Critical Issues ◽

School Guidance

Psychological services delivered at school level play a significant role in the overall educational development and health of students. Across Australia, guidance and counselling services are currently in a state of flux, with reductions or redirections of services in most states. Some critical issues are raised in regard to present and future service provision for students, teachers and families. This paper presents a ‘case study’ of Victorian services, and an Australian ‘snapshot’ of existing school guidance services, as at April 1992.

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