Britain's Modernised Civil Service (Contemporary Political Studies #24)

June Burnham, Robert Pyper

$54.95

Publication Date: April 1st, 2008

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

ISBN:

9780333945339

Pages:

288

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Description

This comprehensively revised replacement volume for Robert Pyper's popular text The British Civil Service explains and assesses the impact on the civil service of the historic Whitehall unitary model, the New Public Management of Thatcher and Major and the modernisation agenda of the Blair government. It provides a broad-ranging introduction to the civil service today and of the demands and pressures it faces from political leaders, policy-makers and citizen-users within the multi-governmental context of devolution and EU membership.

About the Author

JUNE BURNHAM was formerly Senior Lecturer in European Government, Middlesex University, UK. ROBERT PYPER is Professor of Government and Public Management, Glasgow Caledonian University, UKJUNE BURNHAM was formerly Senior Lecturer in European Government, Middlesex University, UK. ROBERT PYPER is Professor of Government and Public Management, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK