During the last 20 years, there has been an explosion in the production and dissemination of a number of highly popular managerial concepts. These initiatives, such as TQM and BPR, highlight a number of themes. Refers to these new movements as “new managerialism”, supported by new...

In response to recent terror attacks, Western governments now involve private sector organizations in national security regimes in key strategic areas such as travel, communication and financial services. The UK’s e-Borders programme is one such regime. Its goal is to collect and analyse...

Surveillance and democracy: sympathies and antagonisms -- Surveillance theory meets participatory theory -- The cases: ANPR, credit scoring and neighbourhood watch -- Search and indignify: automatic number plate recognition -- Blacklists and black holes: credit scoring -- Peers and prejudice:...