John Dixon; Dennis P. Garrity; Jean-Marc Boffa; Timothy O. Williams; Tilahun Amede; Christopher Auricht; Rosemary Lott Taylor & Francis Ltd (2019) Kovakantinen kirja
John Dixon; Dennis P. Garrity; Jean-Marc Boffa; Timothy O. Williams; Tilahun Amede; Christopher Auricht; Rosemary Lott Taylor & Francis Ltd (2021) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Chuck Dixon; Dick Giordano; Barry Kitson; Mike Wieringo; Garth Ennis; Christopher Priest; Dennis O'Neil; Graham Nolan Panini Verlags GmbH (2022) Kovakantinen kirja
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years.
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework.
This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
