ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00921.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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The Treasury's annual survey of public expenditure is the central element in planning and controlling public expenditure. While its purpose remains similar to that in the 1970s, the principles governing its preparation, the methodology employed and the conduct of negotiations between the Treasury and the departments have changed with successive attempts to control both the total and programme allocations more effectively. This article examines and explains the process of preparing the survey, through the main stages from the decisions about the size of total public spending in the context of the government's macroeconomic strategy to the announcement in the Autumn Statement of the planned totals and allocations for the next three years and finally to the publication in February of the departmental Public Expenditure Chapters. Part I1 [Summer issue] analyses the effects and effectiveness of the survey processes, and discusses whose interests have been best served.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00922.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Government policy seeks to introduce competition into the supply of social care through the separation of purchasing and providing responsibilities. A study of 24 local authority social service departments has explored the initial steps taken to prepare for the new enabling role, including the creation of a mixed economy of care. Very few were seeking to create a market in social care. Most argued that the inherent nature of social care rendered the introduction of service specifications and price mechanisms neither approriate nor feasible. Many authorities interpreted the enabling role in ways significantly different from that of the government. The study raises questions about the extent of local discretion in a context where the range of values and interests of implementing agencies may differ from those of the centre.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00923.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article uses policy network theory to examine comparatively the politics of the British and West German coal industries in the 1980s. It considers the reasons why policy in Britain was directed at restructuring and in West Germany at preserving the industry's existing structure. It focuses on the dynamics of network stability and change, and the growing importance of the international dimension in domestic policy making, a factor overlooked by network theory. The article contrasts the Thatcher and Kohl governments which, though both avowedly committed to free‐markets, pursued very different policies in the coal industry. The article concludes with a brief assessment of network theor

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00924.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article critically examines the state of knowledge with respect to the geographical provision of health care before the national health Service (MIS). Most accounts claim that health care was geographically unequal and/or inequitable. On closer examination, however, the claims of these studies appear roblematic. This is due to problems of the sources of data, intretation of the data, anz one writefs assertion becoming a subsequent writer's ‘fact’. The xarges of inequality and inequity are critically examined. Then, for the hospital services, the situation is explored using data from a well respected but underutilized national wartime survey. Finally, an attempt is made to comare the degree of geographical inequality before the NHS with that of today. It is conclugd that the degree of inequality before the NHS is not as great as some conventional wisdom would suggest. Therefore, if the charges against the pre‐NHs system are to stand, more evidence will be n

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00925.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00926.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00927.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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The influence of Professionals in the formulation of public policies has been an issue of scientific research in the past decade. In this article we deal with a less examined as of this issue. Professional influence is analysed in the context of Greek public policy, where the intensely centralized administration is dominated by the demands of political clientelism. Focusing on the case of the influence of peers in local government reform between 1974 and 1989, the article reveals the role of Trofessiondism in the hesitant decentraiization of functions and resources to local authorities and the initiation of institutions that have allowed the birth and development of new organizations at the central and the local level. Given the shift towards partydirected patronage and the intense party politiciza‐tion of professional and trade organizations, the central state aparatus and the local authorities in post‐dictatorship Greece, professional influence in putlic policies is seen to be closely related to the rise of professionals in party hierarchies. The catalytic role of professionals in the promotion of reform policies reducing organizational diversity and fragmentation is understood within the context of the contradiction between the need to adapt state structures and practices in a rapidl changing international environment and the preservation of traditional political and acyministrative forces in key positions of the power struct

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00928.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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The fourth Labour government (1984–90) has carried out a radical restructuring of executive government comparable to corresonding reforms in Britain. The changes described have been carried out in government Bepartments, state‐owned enterprises, the civil service, minister/civil servant relationships, regional and local overnment, and in the organization of the health and education services. The reforms folfow a consistent blueprint based on ideas of economists andublic choice theorists, especially those relating to agency theory and transaction costs. The themes of the New Zealand blueprint are ‘decoupling’ policy from service delivery, a PrinapaVagent model of managerial decentralization, new financial accounting systems, contracting for service provision and monitoring managerial performance. In implementation, where there are elected authorities but government is the main funding agent, there is uncertainty about the degree of discretion and appropriate accountabilities. Implementation has also illustrated the problems of defining desired outputs and outcomes and in malung them useable by professional workers and elected represen

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00929.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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DEMOCRACY, BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC CHOICE Patrick Dunleavy.ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM COMES OF AGE Gerald E. Caiden.EDINBURGH ESSAYS IN PUBLIC LAW W. Fie, C. Himsworth and N. Walker (eds.)CRITICISM AND PUBLIC RATIONALITY: PROFESSIONAL RIGIDITY AND THE SEARCH FOR CARING G0VERNMENT Harry Smart.LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE: TREMDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Richard Batley and Gerry Stoker (eds.)STATE RESTRUCTURING AND LOCAL POWER ‐ A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE C. Pickvance and E. Preteceille (eds.)GOVERNING BIG CITIES: THE MANAGEMENT OF DECENTRALIZATION Graham Bush.THE POLITICS OF THE IRISH CONSTITLITION Basil Chubb.POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN NORTHERN IRELAND M. Connolly.INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK Lewis Roberts and Albert Weale (eds.)CONTROLLING POLLUTION IN THE ROUND: CHANGE AND CHOICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY A. Weale, T. O'Riordan and L. Kramme.WASTE LOCATION: SPATIAL ASPECTS OF WASTE MANAGEMENT, HAZARDS AND DISPOSAL M. Clark, D. Smith and A. Blowers (eds.)THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF NUCLEAR WASTE A. Blowers, D. Lowry and B. Solomon.PUBLIC ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: SEVEN COUNTRY STUDIES Roger Wettenhall and Colm O'Nuallain.ESPIONAGE AND SECRECY: THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS 1911–1989 OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Rosamund M. Thomas.A VOICE FOR CHILDREN: SPEAKING OUT AS THEIR OMBUDSMAN Målfrid Grude Flekkøy Jessica.UNRAVELLING HOUSING FINANCE: SUBSIDIES, BENEFITS, AND TAXATION John Hills Alan Murie.DILEMMAS OF PLANNING PRACTICE Huw Thomas and Patsy Healey

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1992.tb00930.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY