ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00832.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The past few years have seen major changes in Whitehall. These include: the encouragement of business values; the erosion of the idea of a career civil service; the Citizen's Charter; the growth of Next Steps agencies; market testing; the rise of political patronage and tensions in ministerial/official relationships. The official view is that this is an evolution of a former tradition and that the old public service ethos can continue. This seems doubtful. At all events there are widely differing normative, evaluations of the recent developments. The article concludes by offering some more historical reflections about the significance of the developments in the context of British public administration.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00833.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The 1990s have been marked by a resurgence of interest in questions of corporate governance in both public and private sector settings. The 1990 reorganization of the NHS is taken as an example of a recent attempt to‘reform’arrangements for corporate governance in the public sector based on a board of directors’model. The policy background is reviewed and the salient features of the NHS reorganization outlined. Empirical case study evidence is adduced which enables us to make an assessment of the advantageous and disadvantageous effects of the 1990 reorganization. Some unresolved questions are outlined in the concluding discu

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00834.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The recent changes in the UK National Health Service were heralded by the publication of the Griffiths report in 1983 which highlighted the need for a business‐like’approach to management. The policy makers’generic strategy of the late 1980s and early 1990s centred around the concept of‘quasi‐markets’. These were artificial internal markets encompassing the purchasers and providers of public services.Little research has been undertaken into this new phenomenon of the‘quasi‐market’but entrepreneurship economic theory would suggest that for markets to be efficient would require a supply of alert and aware entrepreneurs. Within the restructured NHS, the mantle for entrepreneurial management seems to have been placed firmly on the shoulders of the newly created‘business managers’.A 1993 survey amongst NHS business managers in first and second wave trust hospitals in the Trent Regional Health Authority indicated that whilst business managers were knowledgable of what entrepreneurial activity is, they currently feel constrained in their new roles for a variety of reasons. The authors suggest that rational economic analysis is insufficient to explain this lack of innovatory endeavour. Instead policy makers’attention should be devoted to liberating health managers from their current constraints to encourage their entr

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00835.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

There is a growing recognition that obtaining feedback from users is a fundamental and integral part of measuring effectiveness and without such a perspective, policy evaluation will have limited legitimacy. There is still, however, widespread uncertainty about how best to carry this out or in what circumstances, given methodological and other constraints, such an approach is likely to be worthwhile.The aim of this article is not to rehearse in detail the merits and demerits of users as stakeholders, thereby providing a rationale for their inclusion in the evaluation process. This has been adequately covered elsewhere despite the subsequent paucity of empirical studies seeking to incorporate user perspectives. Rather, it is an attempt to suggest a set of co‐requisites which would provide some guidance to would‐be evaluators as to those conditions in which incorporation of user perspectives will be both methodologically sound and practically useful. In so doing, it suggests a referential rather than just an exclusively schematic approach to evaluation. It is hoped that the insights provided by the case studies described in the article will help those involved in evaluations to more quickly vet or validate desiderata in which inclusions of this stakeholder's group is desirable, expedient, permissible and authoritat

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00836.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Public policy usually develops in complex networks of public, quasi‐public and private organizations. It is now generally accepted that these networks set limits to the governance capability of the administration. A good deal less is known about the opportunities which policy networks offer for tackling social and administrative problems. This article deals with the way network management enables government organizations to benefit from networks. Building on the theoretical concepts of‘networks’and‘games’, two forms of network management are identified: game management and network structuring. Four key aspects can be identified for both of these management forms: actors and their relations, resources, rules and perceptions. At the same time, criteria for the assessment and improvement of network management are examined. The article concludes with a consideration of the limits of network m

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00837.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article compares two approaches to administrative reform. The first, the traditional approach, relies on the generation of a reform blueprint by an autonomous commission made up of non‐bureaucrats. The second and more recent approach relies instead on a small unit often staffed by civil servants and reporting directly to the highest political authorities.The new approach offers reformers the flexibility needed to circumvent opposition yet achieve rapid results: an advantage essential to successful reform, yet signally lacking in the traditional approach. This is amply borne out by case studies from Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The administrative reform commission may now be an obsolete instrumen

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00838.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The recent unveiling of a package of measures designed to make the work of the European Commission more‘transparent’is part of a wider effort to make EU decision‐making more open and accessible. Yet, the Commission's transparency package was designed above all to cope with its chronic management problems. These include rigid lines of division between different spheres of the Commission, the strong loyalties of policy‐concerned Directorates‐General (dgs) to their specific‘clientele’, unclear rules governing access to information, and intense rivalries betweendgs and the private offices of individual Commissioners. This article dissects the transparency package and uses case study material to highlight ways in which the transparency initiative seeks to provide antidotes to the Commission's management problems. It offers an early assessment of the transparency package's impact and examines the prospects for reform of the Commission under J

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00839.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

THE BRITISH ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM: PRINCIPLES VERSUS PRACTICEGrant JordanMANAGING THE WELFARE STATE: THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENTTony Cutler and Barbara Waine

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00840.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY