William Plowden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1190040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Plowden |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Plowden |
| SIGNATURE | PLOWDEN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of General Practitioners |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Public Interests the Public Services Serve
Welfare Policy After Thatcher
Focus on Health Care
Joint Approaches to Social Policy
This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed …
Advising the Rulers
What Prospects for the Civil Service
The British civil service, a highly conservative institution, is at present subject both to spontaneous pressures for change and to pressures from the Conservative government. Change is necessary, including relatively radical developments, such as increased political influence over senior appointments. Current attempts to improve financial management in Whitehall are, as far as they go, on the right lines (though their longer‐tern implications ne…
British Administrative Reform
The Image of the Public Administrator
The more that I have thought about the question of the image of the public administrator, the more complex and ambiguous the whole concept has seemed to be. Our knowledge of the facts is patchy enough. Our understanding of causes and effects is thinner still. The best approach is perhaps to pool what we know from different sources. So today I propose to add to the available material, including the recent ANOP survey findings, such fragments of in…
Advising the Rulers
What Prospects for the Civil Service
The British civil service, a highly conservative institution, is at present subject both to spontaneous pressures for change and to pressures from the Conservative government. Change is necessary, including relatively radical developments, such as increased political influence over senior appointments. Current attempts to improve financial management in Whitehall are, as far as they go, on the right lines (though their longer‐tern implications ne…
Welfare Policy After Thatcher
British Administrative Reform
The Image of the Public Administrator
The more that I have thought about the question of the image of the public administrator, the more complex and ambiguous the whole concept has seemed to be. Our knowledge of the facts is patchy enough. Our understanding of causes and effects is thinner still. The best approach is perhaps to pool what we know from different sources. So today I propose to add to the available material, including the recent ANOP survey findings, such fragments of in…
The Image of the Public Administrator
The more that I have thought about the question of the image of the public administrator, the more complex and ambiguous the whole concept has seemed to be. Our knowledge of the facts is patchy enough. Our understanding of causes and effects is thinner still. The best approach is perhaps to pool what we know from different sources. So today I propose to add to the available material, including the recent ANOP survey findings, such fragments of in…
British Administrative Reform
What Prospects for the Civil Service
The British civil service, a highly conservative institution, is at present subject both to spontaneous pressures for change and to pressures from the Conservative government. Change is necessary, including relatively radical developments, such as increased political influence over senior appointments. Current attempts to improve financial management in Whitehall are, as far as they go, on the right lines (though their longer‐tern implications ne…
Joint Approaches to Social Policy
This book is in essence concerned with the quest for rationality in decision-making, and is founded on the premise that improvements in the machinery of decision-making can actually lead to better decisions. The numerous initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s established specifically to foster greater policy coordination (notably the Central Policy Review Staff or 'Think Tank') had, by the beginning of the 1980s, fallen foul of an altogether changed …
Advising the Rulers
Focus on Health Care
Welfare Policy After Thatcher
Public Interests the Public Services Serve
Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Citation (3 works) · Law (3 works)