Christine Bellamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Bellamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Bellamy |
| SIGNATURE | BELLAMY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969
Although some influential officials saw value in it during peacetime, 1950s British governments decided to allow the national register and identity card wartime scheme to lapse without replacement. Scholars have not satisfactorily explained why they did so. This article argues that neither the surveillance imperatives for tracking citizens nor 'joined-up government' aspirations for service integration nor the limits of analogue systems were the d…
The Paradox of National Registration in a Liberal State
This article traces the history of British government policy on wartime national registration from 1915 to 1952. In contrast to accounts that emphasise the significance of registration for the development of an ‘information state’, it explores the implications of the fundamental paradox in national registration in a liberal state. That is, the distinctive value of a register lies in its continuing accuracy and comprehensiveness; but these propert…
The Whitehall Programme and After
This article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist – reflecting its apparent hollowing‐out – but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the…
Alive and Well? The ‘Surveillance Society’ and the Coalition
The new Coalition government in the UK seems to be determined to reverse the ‘surveillance society’ which many observers claimed to have emerged under the previous Labour government. This short article reviews the reasons why the ‘surveillance society’ became a major issue in the last years of the New Labour government, and, in the light of recent policy statements, questions whether the libertarian thrust of the Coalition’s political programme c…
Modelling electronic democracy
Information-sharing dilemmas in public services
Information‐sharing and Confidentiality in Social Policy
In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies’ persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information‐sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not …
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
Institutional Shaping of Interagency Working
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Oxford University Press / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/379
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to ‘joined-up working’, by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens’ personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the Eu…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The tension between the goals of integrated, seamless public services, requiring more extensive data sharing, and of privacy protection, now represents a major challenge for UK policy-makers, regulators and service managers. In Part I of this article (see Public Administration volume 83, number 1, pp. 111–33), we showed that attempts to manage this tension are being made at two levels. First, a settlement is being attempted at the level of genera…
From Automation to Knowledge Management
In the UK, as elsewhere, the development of new, technologically-enabled ways of managing and communicating information is coming to the fore in relation to government reform. As these quotations from recent policy documents illustrate well, the shift to information-age government is seen as a key element in the British Government’s modernization strategy. Thus far, however, the rhetoric of information-age government has outstripped its achieveme…
Implementing Information-Age Government
Joining‐Up Government in the UK
The reform of public services has preoccupied managers for several decades. Nevertheless, it is my contention that the present reform agenda has some plausible claims to be different from much that went before. The vision that has come to the fore in the Australian federal government’s Clients First Program (Information Technology Review Group 1995), in the Clinton/Gore administration’s Access America report (Government IT Services 1997) andthe r…
Wiring-up the deck-chairs
Journal Article Wiring-up the deck-chairs? Get access C Bellamy, C Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CD Raab CD Raab Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 518–534, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.3.518 Published: 01 July 1999
Transforming Social Security Benefits Administration for the Twenty‐first Century
The creation of the new Social Security Benefits Agency in 1991 coincided with the final installation in local offices of the first Operational Strategy computer systems, which automated large parts of social security benefits administration. Since then the agency has refocused its strategic thinking towards a ten‐year development programme which is centred around plans for‘one‐stop’benefits delivery. The article shows why this programme is depen…
Defining the Line
Journal Article DEFINING THE LINE: ACADEMICS AND THE ‘NOT SO NEW’ PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Get access Christine Bellamy Christine Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 360–363, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052537 Published: 01 April 1995
Exchanging information with the public
There is growing interest in new ways in which states interact with citizens, and public services respond to their customers. This interest stems from many sources and has arisen in many different contexts. What these agendas have in common, however, is that they are all predicated on new flows of information between government and citizens that may be facilitated by the innovative application of information and communication technologies (ICTs).…
Introduction
This introduction to the theme issue on Towards the Information Polity? Public Administration in the information age presents the case for the systematic academic investigation of the changing relationships which characterize the ‘information polity’. This perspective on the information polity focuses on the significance of new kinds of informational resources and flows in government, and their interaction with broad directions of reform in conte…
Informatisation and New Public Management
Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Information‐sharing and Confidentiality in Social Policy
In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies’ persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information‐sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not …
Institutional Shaping of Interagency Working
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Oxford University Press / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/379
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to ‘joined-up working’, by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens’ personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the Eu…
Introduction
This introduction to the theme issue on Towards the Information Polity? Public Administration in the information age presents the case for the systematic academic investigation of the changing relationships which characterize the ‘information polity’. This perspective on the information polity focuses on the significance of new kinds of informational resources and flows in government, and their interaction with broad directions of reform in conte…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The tension between the goals of integrated, seamless public services, requiring more extensive data sharing, and of privacy protection, now represents a major challenge for UK policy-makers, regulators and service managers. In Part I of this article (see Public Administration volume 83, number 1, pp. 111–33), we showed that attempts to manage this tension are being made at two levels. First, a settlement is being attempted at the level of genera…
Wiring-up the deck-chairs
Journal Article Wiring-up the deck-chairs? Get access C Bellamy, C Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CD Raab CD Raab Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 518–534, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.3.518 Published: 01 July 1999
Information-sharing dilemmas in public services
From Automation to Knowledge Management
In the UK, as elsewhere, the development of new, technologically-enabled ways of managing and communicating information is coming to the fore in relation to government reform. As these quotations from recent policy documents illustrate well, the shift to information-age government is seen as a key element in the British Government’s modernization strategy. Thus far, however, the rhetoric of information-age government has outstripped its achieveme…
Transforming Social Security Benefits Administration for the Twenty‐first Century
The creation of the new Social Security Benefits Agency in 1991 coincided with the final installation in local offices of the first Operational Strategy computer systems, which automated large parts of social security benefits administration. Since then the agency has refocused its strategic thinking towards a ten‐year development programme which is centred around plans for‘one‐stop’benefits delivery. The article shows why this programme is depen…
Exchanging information with the public
There is growing interest in new ways in which states interact with citizens, and public services respond to their customers. This interest stems from many sources and has arisen in many different contexts. What these agendas have in common, however, is that they are all predicated on new flows of information between government and citizens that may be facilitated by the innovative application of information and communication technologies (ICTs).…
Informatisation and New Public Management
The Paradox of National Registration in a Liberal State
This article traces the history of British government policy on wartime national registration from 1915 to 1952. In contrast to accounts that emphasise the significance of registration for the development of an ‘information state’, it explores the implications of the fundamental paradox in national registration in a liberal state. That is, the distinctive value of a register lies in its continuing accuracy and comprehensiveness; but these propert…
The Whitehall Programme and After
This article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist – reflecting its apparent hollowing‐out – but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the…
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
Alive and Well? The ‘Surveillance Society’ and the Coalition
The new Coalition government in the UK seems to be determined to reverse the ‘surveillance society’ which many observers claimed to have emerged under the previous Labour government. This short article reviews the reasons why the ‘surveillance society’ became a major issue in the last years of the New Labour government, and, in the light of recent policy statements, questions whether the libertarian thrust of the Coalition’s political programme c…
Implementing Information-Age Government
Joining‐Up Government in the UK
The reform of public services has preoccupied managers for several decades. Nevertheless, it is my contention that the present reform agenda has some plausible claims to be different from much that went before. The vision that has come to the fore in the Australian federal government’s Clients First Program (Information Technology Review Group 1995), in the Clinton/Gore administration’s Access America report (Government IT Services 1997) andthe r…
Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Informatisation and New Public Management
Introduction
This introduction to the theme issue on Towards the Information Polity? Public Administration in the information age presents the case for the systematic academic investigation of the changing relationships which characterize the ‘information polity’. This perspective on the information polity focuses on the significance of new kinds of informational resources and flows in government, and their interaction with broad directions of reform in conte…
Defining the Line
Journal Article DEFINING THE LINE: ACADEMICS AND THE ‘NOT SO NEW’ PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Get access Christine Bellamy Christine Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 360–363, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052537 Published: 01 April 1995
Exchanging information with the public
There is growing interest in new ways in which states interact with citizens, and public services respond to their customers. This interest stems from many sources and has arisen in many different contexts. What these agendas have in common, however, is that they are all predicated on new flows of information between government and citizens that may be facilitated by the innovative application of information and communication technologies (ICTs).…
Transforming Social Security Benefits Administration for the Twenty‐first Century
The creation of the new Social Security Benefits Agency in 1991 coincided with the final installation in local offices of the first Operational Strategy computer systems, which automated large parts of social security benefits administration. Since then the agency has refocused its strategic thinking towards a ten‐year development programme which is centred around plans for‘one‐stop’benefits delivery. The article shows why this programme is depen…
Joining‐Up Government in the UK
The reform of public services has preoccupied managers for several decades. Nevertheless, it is my contention that the present reform agenda has some plausible claims to be different from much that went before. The vision that has come to the fore in the Australian federal government’s Clients First Program (Information Technology Review Group 1995), in the Clinton/Gore administration’s Access America report (Government IT Services 1997) andthe r…
Wiring-up the deck-chairs
Journal Article Wiring-up the deck-chairs? Get access C Bellamy, C Bellamy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CD Raab CD Raab Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 3, July 1999, Pages 518–534, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.3.518 Published: 01 July 1999
Implementing Information-Age Government
From Automation to Knowledge Management
In the UK, as elsewhere, the development of new, technologically-enabled ways of managing and communicating information is coming to the fore in relation to government reform. As these quotations from recent policy documents illustrate well, the shift to information-age government is seen as a key element in the British Government’s modernization strategy. Thus far, however, the rhetoric of information-age government has outstripped its achieveme…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The Labour government that came to power in the United Kingdom in 1997 made much of its commitment to ‘joined-up working’, by which it meant horizontal integration between policies and co-ordination across services. The particular manner in which it pursued this commitment has led to growing pressure for the sharing of citizens’ personal information among public service agencies. Yet at the same time, Parliament was engaged in implementing the Eu…
Joined-up government and privacy in the United Kingdom
The tension between the goals of integrated, seamless public services, requiring more extensive data sharing, and of privacy protection, now represents a major challenge for UK policy-makers, regulators and service managers. In Part I of this article (see Public Administration volume 83, number 1, pp. 111–33), we showed that attempts to manage this tension are being made at two levels. First, a settlement is being attempted at the level of genera…
Partnership and Privacy – Tension or Settlement? The Case of Adult Mental Health Services
Mental health is a good example of a field where imperatives for partnership or collaborative working can be in tension with those for client confidentiality. Both imperatives have been reinforced by additional regulation in recent years, in response to major inquiries. Professionals face the dilemma that either sharing clients' or patients' information or not sharing it could lead to outcomes for which they might be blamed; any rule adopted risk…
Institutional Shaping of Interagency Working
This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory [Oxford University Press / © The Authors]. The definitive version is available at: http://jpart.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/17/3/379
Information‐sharing and Confidentiality in Social Policy
In recent years, there has been growing concern in the UK that local services aimed at risky or vulnerable people are ineffective, because of agencies’ persistent failure to share information about their clients. Despite considerable national policy effort to encourage better information‐sharing, previous research indicates that there are many cases where information is still not shared when it should be, or where it is shared when it should not …
Modelling electronic democracy
Information-sharing dilemmas in public services
The Whitehall Programme and After
This article revisits the Whitehall Programme and Rod Rhodes' crucial role in setting it up. It examines the research commissioned for the Programme and how research in this field has changed since the mid 1990s. It confirms that research on Whitehall has become more diverse and specialist – reflecting its apparent hollowing‐out – but that research employing a longer historical perspective does not support an interpretation that government in the…
Alive and Well? The ‘Surveillance Society’ and the Coalition
The new Coalition government in the UK seems to be determined to reverse the ‘surveillance society’ which many observers claimed to have emerged under the previous Labour government. This short article reviews the reasons why the ‘surveillance society’ became a major issue in the last years of the New Labour government, and, in the light of recent policy statements, questions whether the libertarian thrust of the Coalition’s political programme c…
The Paradox of National Registration in a Liberal State
This article traces the history of British government policy on wartime national registration from 1915 to 1952. In contrast to accounts that emphasise the significance of registration for the development of an ‘information state’, it explores the implications of the fundamental paradox in national registration in a liberal state. That is, the distinctive value of a register lies in its continuing accuracy and comprehensiveness; but these propert…
Why no population register in peacetime? Explaining Britain’s difficult decisions, 1943-1969
Although some influential officials saw value in it during peacetime, 1950s British governments decided to allow the national register and identity card wartime scheme to lapse without replacement. Scholars have not satisfactorily explained why they did so. This article argues that neither the surveillance imperatives for tracking citizens nor 'joined-up government' aspirations for service integration nor the limits of analogue systems were the d…
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