RYAN, Neal <br/><br/>
Reconstructing citizens as consumers :  implications for new modes of governance 

 - Oxford :  Blackwell Publishers Limited,  September 2001 
<br/><br/> This article examines the relationshipe between government and the public within a producer-consumer market exchange. Four conceptual problems are identified in relation to the aplication of market models to the relationship between government and citizen. These types of models fail to account for the essentially political engagement between government and citizens, the collective responsibilities of government, the absence of market in many areas of government service delivery and the complexity of relations between government and citizens