Peter Barberis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Barberis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Barberis |
| SIGNATURE | BARBÉRIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The managerial imperative
For at least fifty years and from uncertain beginnings, management has steadily advanced to become a dominant feature across the public sector. Management is necessary and, when purposefully and judiciously applied, can be efficacious. But it lacks the constitutional bearings of the traditional public administration that it has in large measure displaced. And, in the absence of the “sudden death” market discipline of the private sector, from whic…
Richard Chapman (1937–2011)
Ann Scott (2010) Ernest Gowers
Motivation in Public Management
The Civil Service in the 21st Century
The Ideal of Public Service
The 1964 General Election and the Liberals' False Dawn
The Liberal revival of the early 1960s gave the party good reason for optimism about the 1964 general election. Financially and organisationally the Liberal party was in reasonable shape; there had been a vigorous outpouring of policy; and in Jo Grimond there was a leader who, in terms of personal appeal, could match his rivals. But in spite of receiving more votes and a greater share of the poll than at any previous post-war election, the party …
Introduction
The Labour Party and Mr Keynes in the 1930s
To whatever extent the Labour Party adopted Keynesian economic policies before the Second World War it is easy to assume that Keynes and his ideas provided the benchmark — especially for reformers, perhaps also those of more traditionalist persuasion. Yet this paper shows how little Keynes featured in Labour's deliberations during the 1930s. It does so chiefly by an examination of public debates at annual party conferences and by analyses of the …
The Civil Service Commission 1855-1991
Echoes of Administrative History
Works by Samuel Finer, Oliver MacDonagh and Maurice Wright illustrate different dimensions of influence in the genre of administrative history. In chronicling the deeds of Sir Edwin Chadwick, a high profile nineteenth century civil servant, Finer demonstrated the purchase of (Benthamite) ideas upon the role and organization of government. No less so he set new standards in administrative biography, mobilising a wide range of primary and secondary…
Governance UK
Civil society, virtue, trust
Laments about the decline of public morality and the public service ethos have found expression from across the political spectrum. The age of modernity (or post-modernism) makes more difficult, though by no means impossible, the maintenance of a civil society in which ‘virtue’ and ‘trust’. feed the public service ethos. Indeed modernity has greater need for civil society, virtue and trust at exactly the same time as their stock are receding. Gov…
The break‐up of Britain? Twentieth century perspectives
(2000). The break‐up of Britain? Twentieth century perspectives. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1-9
Ethical Management for the Public Services
The New Public Management And A New Accountability
There has long been a disparity between the practice and the neo‐Diceyan doctrine of accountability in British central government. This article shows that the New Public Management (NPM), while not itself the root cause of such disparity, has nevertheless both exacerbated and further exposed existing fault‐lines. This much is evident from an examination of NPM’s theoretical bearings and from brief case studies of the Child Protection Agency and t…
The Civil Service from Fulton to Next Steps and Beyond - Two Interpretations, Two Epistemologies
This paper examines the character and process of managerial reform in the British civil service since the Fulton Report of 1968. It considers two types of interpretation — 'grand strategy' and 'ad hoc'. These it links, for purely analytical purposes, to two epistemologies, macro-positivism and interpretivism respectively. Grand strategy interpretations have a good deal of plausibility. There appears to have been almost a seamless, progressive seq…
The Civil Service
Permanent Secretaries and Policy-Making in the 1980s
Britain's Reforming Ministries
While recognising the difficulties in making rigorous longitudinal comparisons, this paper proposes four benchmarks by which we may relate and assess the accomplishments of various radical reforming governments. These benchmarks are then applied to the domestic policy achievements of five such governments ranging chronologically from the Whigs of the 1830s to the Thatcher era. The purpose is not so much to determine which among them was the most …
The Keynesian Revolution in Whitehall
This paper examines some of the public policy implications of the debate about the Keynesian Revolution. This it does by testing more recent (revisionist) interpretations which have challenged traditional (Keynesian) beliefs that a revolution took place. It is argued that the notion of a revolution remains broadly serviceable: and that some of the revisionists have overstated their case, while providing valuable correctives to the cruder varietie…
The New Public Management And A New Accountability
There has long been a disparity between the practice and the neo‐Diceyan doctrine of accountability in British central government. This article shows that the New Public Management (NPM), while not itself the root cause of such disparity, has nevertheless both exacerbated and further exposed existing fault‐lines. This much is evident from an examination of NPM’s theoretical bearings and from brief case studies of the Child Protection Agency and t…
The managerial imperative
For at least fifty years and from uncertain beginnings, management has steadily advanced to become a dominant feature across the public sector. Management is necessary and, when purposefully and judiciously applied, can be efficacious. But it lacks the constitutional bearings of the traditional public administration that it has in large measure displaced. And, in the absence of the “sudden death” market discipline of the private sector, from whic…
Civil society, virtue, trust
Laments about the decline of public morality and the public service ethos have found expression from across the political spectrum. The age of modernity (or post-modernism) makes more difficult, though by no means impossible, the maintenance of a civil society in which ‘virtue’ and ‘trust’. feed the public service ethos. Indeed modernity has greater need for civil society, virtue and trust at exactly the same time as their stock are receding. Gov…
Permanent Secretaries and Policy-Making in the 1980s
Introduction
The Labour Party and Mr Keynes in the 1930s
To whatever extent the Labour Party adopted Keynesian economic policies before the Second World War it is easy to assume that Keynes and his ideas provided the benchmark — especially for reformers, perhaps also those of more traditionalist persuasion. Yet this paper shows how little Keynes featured in Labour's deliberations during the 1930s. It does so chiefly by an examination of public debates at annual party conferences and by analyses of the …
The Keynesian Revolution in Whitehall
This paper examines some of the public policy implications of the debate about the Keynesian Revolution. This it does by testing more recent (revisionist) interpretations which have challenged traditional (Keynesian) beliefs that a revolution took place. It is argued that the notion of a revolution remains broadly serviceable: and that some of the revisionists have overstated their case, while providing valuable correctives to the cruder varietie…
Britain's Reforming Ministries
While recognising the difficulties in making rigorous longitudinal comparisons, this paper proposes four benchmarks by which we may relate and assess the accomplishments of various radical reforming governments. These benchmarks are then applied to the domestic policy achievements of five such governments ranging chronologically from the Whigs of the 1830s to the Thatcher era. The purpose is not so much to determine which among them was the most …
Permanent Secretaries and Policy-Making in the 1980s
The Civil Service from Fulton to Next Steps and Beyond - Two Interpretations, Two Epistemologies
This paper examines the character and process of managerial reform in the British civil service since the Fulton Report of 1968. It considers two types of interpretation — 'grand strategy' and 'ad hoc'. These it links, for purely analytical purposes, to two epistemologies, macro-positivism and interpretivism respectively. Grand strategy interpretations have a good deal of plausibility. There appears to have been almost a seamless, progressive seq…
The Civil Service
The New Public Management And A New Accountability
There has long been a disparity between the practice and the neo‐Diceyan doctrine of accountability in British central government. This article shows that the New Public Management (NPM), while not itself the root cause of such disparity, has nevertheless both exacerbated and further exposed existing fault‐lines. This much is evident from an examination of NPM’s theoretical bearings and from brief case studies of the Child Protection Agency and t…
Ethical Management for the Public Services
The break‐up of Britain? Twentieth century perspectives
(2000). The break‐up of Britain? Twentieth century perspectives. Contemporary British History: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1-9
Civil society, virtue, trust
Laments about the decline of public morality and the public service ethos have found expression from across the political spectrum. The age of modernity (or post-modernism) makes more difficult, though by no means impossible, the maintenance of a civil society in which ‘virtue’ and ‘trust’. feed the public service ethos. Indeed modernity has greater need for civil society, virtue and trust at exactly the same time as their stock are receding. Gov…
Echoes of Administrative History
Works by Samuel Finer, Oliver MacDonagh and Maurice Wright illustrate different dimensions of influence in the genre of administrative history. In chronicling the deeds of Sir Edwin Chadwick, a high profile nineteenth century civil servant, Finer demonstrated the purchase of (Benthamite) ideas upon the role and organization of government. No less so he set new standards in administrative biography, mobilising a wide range of primary and secondary…
Governance UK
The Civil Service Commission 1855-1991
The 1964 General Election and the Liberals' False Dawn
The Liberal revival of the early 1960s gave the party good reason for optimism about the 1964 general election. Financially and organisationally the Liberal party was in reasonable shape; there had been a vigorous outpouring of policy; and in Jo Grimond there was a leader who, in terms of personal appeal, could match his rivals. But in spite of receiving more votes and a greater share of the poll than at any previous post-war election, the party …
Introduction
The Labour Party and Mr Keynes in the 1930s
To whatever extent the Labour Party adopted Keynesian economic policies before the Second World War it is easy to assume that Keynes and his ideas provided the benchmark — especially for reformers, perhaps also those of more traditionalist persuasion. Yet this paper shows how little Keynes featured in Labour's deliberations during the 1930s. It does so chiefly by an examination of public debates at annual party conferences and by analyses of the …
The Ideal of Public Service
The Civil Service in the 21st Century
Motivation in Public Management
Richard Chapman (1937–2011)
Ann Scott (2010) Ernest Gowers
The managerial imperative
For at least fifty years and from uncertain beginnings, management has steadily advanced to become a dominant feature across the public sector. Management is necessary and, when purposefully and judiciously applied, can be efficacious. But it lacks the constitutional bearings of the traditional public administration that it has in large measure displaced. And, in the absence of the “sudden death” market discipline of the private sector, from whic…
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