The Civil Service Paperback / softback
by Keith (London School of Economics London School of Economics, UK) Dowding
Part of the Theory and Practice in British Politics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures.
In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making.
The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms of the public choice and public management theories which underpin them.
Bureau-maximizing and bureau-shaping models are used to predict the directions we should expect the reforms to take and their likely success.
The key central chapter of the book examines the equivocal use of the term "efficiency" used to justify the managerial changes.
This is the first textbook which critically examines theories of bureaucracy together with an introductory and descriptive account of the civil service today.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/09/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415075688
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:07/09/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415075688
