Public Service Reform (PSR) in Scotland and within the wider context of global challenges
Student paper submitted as part of the NTNU/SCVO Internship Research Project. The paper is the product of a five month internship research project conducted at the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organizations by a student in the MSc programme in Globalization ? Politics and Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). "As Scotland faces several challenges to the way public services are being delivered to its people, chief among which are inherently global, such as demographic change and economic downturn, while others are locally specific such as Scottish independence referendum in 2014, there has been an on-going debate over ways in which future policies could help transform the Scottish public service landscape to become more effective, efficient, democratically inclusive, preventative and sustainable. The proposed project sees itself in the same tradition and will aim to contribute to discussions surrounding the further advancement of Public Service Reform (PSR) in Scotland by providing a small sample of perceptions regarding the current state of public services and welfare in Scotland. In doing so it will focus mainly on perceptions and contextual information gathered through interviews with third sector, other non-governmental and governmental representatives as well as a brief look into Scotland's most recent history of public service provision."
