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This is the keynote address given by the Right Hon The Lord Scarman, OBE, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and the RIPA's President, at the Institute's Conference on‘The Shifting State: Rules, Roles and Boundaries in the 198s', held at the University of Aston, 14–15 September 1

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00581.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The Government's privatization programme has acquired such momentum that hardly any public enterprise is exempt from action or proposals. Evaluation of the programme must recognize the diversity of privatization policies, and the tensions inherent within their objectives. Ideological motivation has been supported by the inability of policymakers to design a viable framework of economic and financial control over public enterprises. This has led to a view that it is impossible to manage business efficiently within the public sector, the constraints of which can only be escaped by ‘setting the enterprise free’. However, decisions now will close future options, only be escaped and may be prohibitive to reverse. A list of unanswered questions remain about future relationships between hybrids and governments, the costs and benefits of the regulatory systems which will replace public ownership, and the balance between public policy and private interests. Can the market succeed where the state has been judged to have fai

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00582.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The potential value of enlightened public sector purchasing policies (as distinct from crude‘Buy‐British policies) to stimulate industrial efficiency and technological innovation, although long recognized as of fundamental importance to the British economy, has been largely disregarded by those seeking policies for industrial revitalization. This article reviews the present government's renewed commitment to enlightened public purchasing, outlining exactly what such policies demand of and offer to buyers and suppliers; assessing the progress made to date; and suggesting a number of ways in which the impact of the current initiative might be impro

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00583.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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This article argues that recent political change in Britain has brought about a crisis of adjustment for local government chief officers in their relationship with the elected members. Key aspects of this political change are the break‐up of the post‐war political consensus and the passing of the earlier period of growth. As the ideological distance between the two main parties has widened and the end of growth has intensified conflicts, the professional stance of neutrality towards partisan politics has become more difficult to sustain. So for chief officers the crisis of adjustment has taken the form of a search for new ways of work with the politicians as the earlier, relatively harmonious relationship has passed into history.Against this background of increased politicization, the impact of current changes on the three aspects of the chief officer role is examined: as professional adviser, as departmental manager and as a ‘bureaucratic politician’. Finally, some of the changes that have been proposed to ease this crisis for chief officers are di

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00584.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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Between 1971 and 1984 there were ten cases of merger or demerger in British central government departments, ranging in importance from the massive DTI demerger into four distinct departments (1973) to the absorption by the Lord Chancellor's Department of the Office of the Public Trustee (1982). By analysis of changes in aggregate indices of ‘top staff‘, ‘middle staff’, ratio of administrative grades to total staff, salary costs relative to total budget, budget relative to total Government budget, and staff relative to total Civil Service staff, some common hypotheses about the rationale and effects of such bureau‐shuffling are explored. It is found that, if anything, like attracts unlike (in terms of these indices); that change in scale creates neither economies nor diseconomies; that reorganization does not inevitably produce cost escalation (the ‘Iron Law of Prodigality’); but that the ‘Iron Law of Inertia’ (reorganization in practice has little observable effect on bureaucratic structure and working) is supported by the

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00585.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

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The bulk of Nigel Balchin's fiction follows the same pattern – a sound male character observing an unsound one; his plots are occasionally more complicated, as when a character examines critically his own soundness or when scientific soundness is transformed into political unacceptability. The novels are therefore a good guide to soundness as a golden mean. But rulers need to balance sense and vision. Balchin questions the value of bureaucratic games in modern organizations which harm a balanced resolution. It is surprising that as a psychologist who understands the pragmatic of interpersonal politics in organizations he failed himself to acquire the depth of vision of a great political novelis

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00586.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00587.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00588.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00589.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0033-3298    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00590.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY