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This article surveys developments in the profession of public administration in Britain in the 1980s. It explores: publications by analysing the contents of the leading journal; research grants through an analysis of ESRC awards; teaching through a resume of recent CNAA reports; and employment through a secondary analysis of the Political Studies Association's survey of the political science profession. Where possible, I compare the results with the findings of equivalent surveys in the US. These several surveys support five conclusions.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00814.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The last fifteen years or so saw a flourish and then the surprising collapse of implementation process theory and contingency theory. Despite the enormous popular (and international) impact of privatization in these years, there was oddly little British administrative research in that area, although other aspects of‘the Thatcherite Revolution’, especially‘the new public management’, cultural change, and the divestment of executive work by Whitehall departments, were well covered. Growth points were informational logic theory and institutional analysis, though British development of cultural theory was somewhat lacking. Emphasis which shifted from‘public administration’to‘public management’may shift again in the coming decade,

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00815.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Traditionally, both the academic study and the practice of UK public administration have drawn very little inspiration from the discipline of public law. In contrast to most other European countries, in which public services are subject to extensive administrative‐legal codes, and in which administrative disputes fall under the jurisdiction of separate and specialized administrative courts, UK administrative law remains – recent reforms notwithstanding – significantly undeveloped. There is a marked contrast also with the United States, where the founding scholars of the discipline of public administration saw it as being firmly rooted in public law. There is no codified British constitution and no counterpart of the US Supreme Court; and there is no British counterpart of the US Administrative Procedure Act 1946. However, there are three factors which underline the urgent need in the UK for greater collaboration and convergence between the disciplines of public law and public administration: first, the accumulation in recent years of a substantial body of research‐based, academic literature on public law, which provides important insights into the changing landscape of UK public administration; secondly, the continuing development of machinery for the redress of citizens’grievances against the state – in particular, the substantial growth of judicial review proceedings and the development of ombudsman systems; thirdly, the continuing transformation of the agenda of UK law and politics by developments in the Eur

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00816.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Public policy is not simply a subset of public administration, but draws on and contributes to a number of aspects of public administration, political science and other disciplines. This article traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by the emphasis on public management. Despite this partial displacement, the policy focus is now institutionalized in academic research, textbooks, journals and teaching. The recent lack of interest in generic policy analysis by British central government is reflected in the way in which the policy aspects have been an afterthought to managerial and organization changes. There is plenty of scope for further refining the skills of those who research, teach and are taught in public policy.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00817.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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Changes to the study of public administration tend to follow those in the practice of the administration of government. The recent shift to public management is characterized and assessed both as a practice and a field of study. The result has been less a revolution in paradigm than the emergence of a vision of government which competes with but does not supplant traditional public administration.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00818.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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The field of intergovernmental relations has been strongly affected by the considerable processes of upheaval and change that have been experienced within the British system of central‐local relations. Researchers have tried to understand these changes both at an empirical and theoretical level.This article reviews four of the main perspectives on the changing nature of intergovernmental relations. The first perspective provides a historical and institutional analysis within the tradition of public administration. The second perspective draws on organizational theory. The third develops insights through rational choice analysis. The final perspective draws on neo‐Marxist influenced state theory. It can be concluded that in a search to understand the turmoil of recent years, students of intergovernmental relations have ranged far and wide in their theoretical concerns. The article closes with an assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of this appro

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00819.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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According to a strict definition, comparative public administration in Britain is relatively undeveloped. However, once the definition is relaxed it is possible to see that scholars in the British Isles make a substantial contribution to the field. This contribution can be examined under four headings; single country studies, juxtapositions, thematic comparisons and causal explanations. While causal explanation must remain as one major objective of comparative study, such explanations are problematic, and not only in Britain. At best they can only deal in establishing the strength of the evidence supporting plausible hypotheses rather than offer more direct tests of causality associated with statistical techniques. The way forward in comparative research is not to be found in a search for an overall theory, or the institutionalization of administrative data gathering. Intellectually interesting questions are more likely to provoke data collection than the other way around. A stronger dialogue between contemporary and past studies as well as a broadening range of countries covered might help generate the projects which provide the systematic comparative data that many commentators believe we lack.

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00820.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This article analyses influences which in recent decades have changed the way in which public administration has been taught in British higher education. Focusing mainly on the former polytechnics, the article argues that a curriculum shift away from the social sciences and towards management, and changes in the nature of the British public sector, have profoundly influenced approaches to teaching public administration. It suggests that learning strategies are closely related to debate about the nature of the discipline and its location within the academic spectrum. The article also raises questions about the extent to which public administration teachers in British universities are equipped to present the more applied and skills‐based teaching which has often been adopted in recent years, and the tensions which this might pose particularly in the‘new’universities with the increasing emphasis upon academic res

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00821.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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This article briefly examines five subfields of the public administration literature in the context of the major changes which have occurred in each of those fields since the 1940s. Major changes include: the alleged shift to‘globalization’affecting comparative public administration; the spread of‘economic rationalism’in policy analysis; the new wave of‘managerialism’affecting the study of the public service; the transformation of administrative technique by‘informatization’; and the rise of legal formalization in some fields redrawing the traditional boundary Unes between law and administration. For each of these subfields of public administration, three types of‘emerging issues’are identified. Some of the trends discussed ‐ particularly managerialization and juridification ‐ seem to be in tension with one another, suggesting alternative possible futures for public administration. Moreover, since many of the intellectual and doctrinal shifts seem to reflect a reaction against the shortcomings of an earlier orthodoxy, a counter‐reaction in the longe

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00822.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY

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GOVERNMENT BEYOND THE CENTRE: SUB‐NATIONAL POLITICS IN BRITAINClive GrayTHE CASE FOR BUREAUCRACY. A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION POLEMIC (3RD EDN.)Charles T. GoodsellPUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION: AN INTRODUCTIONOwen E. HughesPRESSURE, POWER AND POLICY: STATE AUTONOMY AND POLICY NETWORKS IN BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATESMartin J. SmithT.J.: A LIFE OF DR THOMAS JONES, CHE.L. Ell

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1995.tb00823.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1995

数据来源: WILEY