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Keith Dowding, Keith (London School of Economics Dowding, Keith (London School of Economics London Dowding, Keith M. Dowding

Civil Service

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Keith Dowding is Lecturer in Public Choice and Public Policy at the London School of Economics. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Sophisticated yet easily accessible text which applies models of bureacracy to current changes in the British Civil Service and also looks at the impact of the EC. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

Authors	Keith Dowding, Keith (London School of Economics Dowding, Keith (London School of Economics London Dowding, Keith M. Dowding
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	07.09.1995

EAN	9780415075688
ISBN	978-0-415-07568-8
No. of pages	214
Series	Theory and Practice in British Theory and Practice in British Politics Theory and Practice in British Politics
Subject	Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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