Public Management in the United Kingdom - A New Introduction

From the ''Third Way'' reforms of the 1990s to today''s prospect of a post-bureaucracy era, the management of the UK''s public services has been radically overhauled in recent decades. This important new text provides a complete introduction to the key themes and developments in public management and the changing relationship between governments, public service providers and the public.June Burnham and Sylvia Horton examine the key components of public management in the UK, including strategic management and the introduction of new performance management techniques as well as financial and human resources management. The book assesses how wider forces such as Europeanization, globalization and the global economic crisis have affected both the structure and role of the state and the way public services are managed. It also looks back to examine the transition from public administration to public management and considers how different ideologies have influenced and driven reform.Distinctively, the authors provide a full assessment of how devolution has affected public services across all parts of the UK. Providing an insightful and accessibly written introduction, this book will be ideal reading for all students of public management.>

About the author

JUNE BURNHAM was formerly Senior Lecturer in European Government at Middlesex University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: June Burnham, June Horton Burnham, Sylvia Horton, Horton Sylvia
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2012
• EAN: 9780230576292
• ISBN: 978-0-230-57629-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, European Politics, Public Management, Politics & government, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political Science and International Studies, Public Policy, Great Britain—Politics and government, British Politics