<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The article explores some of the issues associated with the rise of the consumer as a focal point for public service reform. In the first section, there are considered the ways in which the consumer has been counterposed to the citizen in recent political developments, while suggesting that this opposition may conceal other important processes and identities. In the second section, a brief history of the image of the consumer in public service reform in the UK is sketched, particularly associated with the New Labour governments of 1997-2010. Following that, a research project conducted among users, workers and managers in three public services in the UK is drawn. It focuses on how users identify themselves and their relationships to public services.</abstract>

Beyond Citizens and Consumers? Publics and Public Service Reform

<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">During the Soviet era, the word "citizen" was strongly connected to the existing state-controlled communist party system. "Citizenship" symbolized the ideal Soviet citizen with loyalty, duty and self-sacrifice to the existing order. The new word "customer" appeared together with democratization, freedom and market. Being customer was the realization of both democracy and the capitalist ideology. <italic>Customership</italic> emerged as a concept distinct from citizenship, and it helped to fill the ideological vacuum in CEE countries. The centrality of consumerism and abandoned citizenship are aspects that might characterize the transformed former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe more than one might expect.</abstract>

"Golden" Customers and "Bronze" Citizens in CEE Countries

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