Research Catalog

Title

Transforming central government : the Next Steps Initiative / Patricia Greer.

Author

Greer, Patricia, 1963-

Publication

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

140 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Covers the Next Steps programme in Great Britain but also covers a chapter on public service reform in New Zealand and Canada. Discusses Mike Fogden, Sir Peter Kemp, War Pensions Agency, Central Office of Information, John Edwards.

Series Statement

Public policy and management

Uniform Title

Public policy and management

Subject

• Great Britain. Department of Social Security
• Großbritannien Government
• Great Britain. Department of Social Security
• Grande-Bretagne. Department of Social Security
• Großbritannien > Regierung
• 1979-1997
• Administrative agencies > Great Britain > Reorganization
• Civil service reform > Great Britain
• Administrative agencies > Reorganization
• Civil service reform
• Politics and government
• Organisation
• Reform
• Bestuurshervormingen
• Ministères > Grande-Bretagne
• Administration publique > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1979-1997
• Great Britain
• Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1979-1997

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Next Steps: Origins -- 2. Evolution or revolution? -- 3. Introducing the Department of Social Security and its agencies -- 4. The main organizational actors in the Next Steps power struggle -- 5. The move to contract government -- 6. Parliamentary and public accountability -- 7. The changing civil service -- 8. Public service reform in New Zealand and Canada -- 9. Evaluating Next Steps.

ISBN

• 0335191150
• 9780335191154
• 0335191142
• 9780335191147

LCCN

93038386

OCLC

• ocm29023396
• 29023396
• SCSB-2022354

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library