214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1 Introduction: the civil service and the state 2 Hierarchy: Weber and the old model 3 Efficiency: its meaning and its abuse 4 Budget-maximizing: evidence of and ending it 5 Bureau-shaping: the new model and the new manager 6 Policy-making: civil servants in the crossfire 7 European Union: new opportunities 8 Accountability: myths and empirical evidence
Biography
Keith Dowding is Lecturer in Public Choice and Public Policy at the London School of Economics.
