a critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation /
edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) :
illustrations
Routledge studies in public management ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Setting the scene; The Agency idea: sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue; What is available and what is missing in the study of quangos?; Agencies, quangos and contracts in the heartlands of the New Public Management; Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps'; Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK; Contracting and accountability: a model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience.
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This comprehensive study discusses the series of changes in governmental systems and structures. It considers the varying approaches of different countries and their governmental structures.
eBook Library
EBL200366
Unbundled government.
0415314488
Administrative agencies-- Reorganization, Case studies.
Decentralization in government, Case studies.
Organizational change.
Public administration.
Administrative agencies-- Reorganization.
Decentralization in government.
Organizational change.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Affairs & Administration.