Overview
- Provides a deep historical analysis, based on last archive files available, which demonstrates the importance of the civil service in implementing reforms
- Reveals the relationship between administrative traditions and modernization and how the governments of the 80s and 90s aimed to shape a new managerial bureaucracy
- Highlights continuity in introducing managerial and marketisation policies into the civil service by Conservatives and Labour governments
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- civil service
- British civil service
- Fulton Report
- Central Policy Review Staff
- Programme Analysis and Review
- Managerialism
- reform
- Financial Management Initiative
- Wardale Report
- Next Steps
- Modernising Government White Paper
- Special Advisers
- public expenditure
- efficiency
- bureaucracy
- accountability
- Civil Service Management Code
- Code of Conduct for Special Advisers
- public management
- administrative history
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy
Book Subtitle: Reforming the British Civil Service
Authors: Lorenzo Castellani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90032-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90031-5Published: 22 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07920-8Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90032-2Published: 08 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 259
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Political History, British Politics, History of Britain and Ireland