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Rise of Managerial Bureaucracy
Reforming the British Civil Service
Book Overview
The book provides detailed analysis of the structure and operation of the British Civil Service along with a historically grounded account of its development in the period from Margaret Thatcher to the Tony Blair premiership. It assesses continuity and change in the civil service during a period of deep transformation using new archive files, government and parliament reports, primary and secondary legislation.
Central Themes
The author takes the evolutionary change of the civil service as a central theme and examines the friction between new managerial practices introduced by government in the 80s and 90s and the administrative traditions rooted in the history of this institution.
Impact of New Public Management
In particular, the author assesses the impact of the New Public Management agenda of the Thatcher and Major years, its enhanced continuity during the Blair years.
Further Changes
Further changes that involved ministerial responsibility, codification, performance management, special advisers, and constitutional conventions are analyzed in the conclusions.
