Decentralising the UK Civil Service: from unitary state to differentiated polity in the United Kingdom

Rhodes, R.A.W, Carmichael, P., McMillan, J. and Massey, A. (2003) Decentralising the UK Civil Service: from unitary state to differentiated polity in the United Kingdom (Public Policy and Management), Buckingham County, US. Open University

Abstract

This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for our understanding of British governance, especially in the context of the public sector management reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the impact of constitutional change (chiefly devolution) since 1998. Given that devolution has been characterized as a process rather than an event, the book brings to bear evidence of how existing longstanding differences within some parts of British public administration may come to be replicated elsewhere in the UK

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Author: R.A.W Rhodes

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