عنوان

The constitutional position of the British Civil Service :

شماره

TLets342955

عنوان اصلي

The constitutional position of the British Civil Service :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Loh, Irene Joo Phaik

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

an assessment of the impact of managerialism on the notion of 'the servant of the Crown' via a case study of HM Prison Service

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Hull

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2000

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Hull

امتياز متن

2000

متن يادداشت

The institution of the civil service is of much contemporary interest here in Britain and elsewhere. The phenomenon of civil service reform forms a significant part of the wider movement to remould public services or in the now legendary phrase, to 'reinvent government' on what could be perceived as a global scale, ranging from the more sophisticated democracies such as in the USA, Britain, Sweden, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, to the newly emerging ones such as Eastern Europe and South Africa. The apparent trend of globalisation is arguably not only confined to the field of public service reform; it can also be seen in other contexts such as the growth of the intergovernmental cooperations within Europe and the Far-East, as well as the proliferation of the Information Superhighway which facilitates an electronic exchange of ideas across geographical frontiers. The reasons for this apparent global convergence fall outside the immediate province of this chapter. This thesis questions one of the enigmas of the modern British constitution, which is that the civil service does not have a statutory footing. So, it is the Executive rather than Parliament which has the prerogative power of regulating the civil service. The enigma is encapsulated in the position where the Executive regulates the civil service, which in turn serves the Executive qua their historical status as 'servants of the Crown'. The thesis is concerned with the cumulative impact of managerial reforms within the British civil service during the Conservative administration from 1979 - 1997 on the idea of civil servants as 'servants of the Crown'. It argues that the key managerial initiatives introduced into the civil service by the Conservative government during this period, illustrate the dangers of the notion of 'servant of the Crown' being captured by the Executive for their short-term political ends. The thesis shows that the managerial transformation collides not only with established constitutional doctrines relating to the civil service but also with the broader norm or theory of constitutionalism embedded in British constitutional history.

موضوع مستند نشده

Management

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

موضوع مستند نشده

Political science

موضوع مستند نشده

Public administration

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Loh, Irene Joo Phaik

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Hull

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y