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The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy

Reforming the British Civil Service

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  • © 2018

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Authors:
  1. Lorenzo Castellani

    1. LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Civil Service: Definition, Organisation and Historical Background

    • Lorenzo Castellani
    Pages 1-29

  3. The Rise of Managerialism in the Civil Service: The Thatcher Years

    • Lorenzo Castellani
    Pages 31-121

  4. Focus on Policy Implementation, Consumer Service and Marketisation: Civil Service Reform in the Major Government (1990–1997)

    • Lorenzo Castellani
    Pages 123-159

  5. 1997–2007: Coordination, Consolidation and Delivery in Blair’s Government

    • Lorenzo Castellani
    Pages 161-205

  6. Management and Tradition in the British Civil Service: Assessing Institutional Development—Issues and Conclusions

    • Lorenzo Castellani
    Pages 207-231

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 233-259
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About this book

The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership. It assesses continuity and change in the civil service during a period of deep transformation using new archive files, government and parliament reports, primary and secondary legislation. The author takes the evolutionary change of the civil service as a central theme and examines the friction between new managerial practices introduced by government in the 80s and 90s and the administrative traditions rooted in the history of this institution. In particular the author assesses the impact of the New Public Management agenda of the Thatcher and Major years its enhanced continuity during the Blair years. Further changes that involved ministerial responsibility, codification, performance management, special advisers and constitutional conventions are analyzed in theconclusions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy

    Lorenzo Castellani

About the author

Lorenzo Castellani is Research and Teaching Assistant at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome. He was previously visiting scholar at King’s College London, visiting fellow at the Open University, and studied at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca. 

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