The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy

Reforming the British Civil Service
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-90031-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3517 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castellani, Lorenzo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One. The Civil Service: Definition, Organization, and Historical Background.- Chapter Two. The Rise of Managerialism in the Civil Service. The Thatcher Years.- Chapter Three. Focus on Policy Implementation, Consumer Service, and Marketisation: Civil Service Reform in the Major Government (1990–1997).- Chapter Four. 1997–2007: Coordination, Consolidation, and Delivery in Blair’s Government.- Chapter Five. Management and Tradition in the British Civil Ser-vice: Assessing Institutional Development. Issues and Conclusions.- Conclusions: The Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy.

Über Autor(innen)

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.