Colin Talbot
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Talbot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Talbot |
| SIGNATURE | TALBOT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glamorgan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Usable Knowledge: Discipline-Oriented Versus Problem-Oriented Social Science in Public Policy
Universities are under pressure to justify the resources they consume by demonstrating ‘relevance’ and ‘impact’. Whilst the UK social sciences have been under intensified scrutiny many other countries are following this trend. Academics have responded by improving the relevancy and accessibility of their outputs particularly for policymakers. We suggest that this response is narrow and ill-conceived. The production of useful social knowledge is n…
The British Administrative Elite. The Art of Change without Changing
La haute fonction publique britannique : l’art du changement sans changer ? — Une interprétation possible de l’état de la haute fonction publique britannique, définie comme le sommet de la fonction publique, serait que des vagues successives de réformes depuis 1979 aient fondamentalement changé son caractère. Auteurs des réformes et chercheurs affirment qu’une modification fondamentale se serait en effet produite. Certains voient comme une modern…
The UK Parliament and performance: Challenging or Challenged
Many governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts of performance information. This movement has increasingly become known variously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or governance. This article focuses on the important question of how legislatures are responding to this development. Using the case of the UK's public performance measurement systems — especially since 1997 and the introduction of Public Service Agreements —…
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
Modernising Government: The Way Forward—a comment
Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations
Many countries now use agencies rather than ministries to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but t
Consilience and Performance in the ‘Art of the State
The future of the liberal arts lies... in addressing the fundamental questions of human existence head on, without embarrassment or fear, taking them from the top down in easily understood language, and progressively rearranging them into domains of inquiry that unite the best of science and the humanities at each level of organization in turn.... I find it hard to conceive of an adequate core curriculum in colleges and universities that avoids t…
Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation
Part One: Setting the Scene 1. Managers managing? The international trend towards agencies, quangos and contratualization Colin Talbot 2. Patterns of structural change Geert Bouckaert and Guy B. Peters Part Two: Agencies, Quangos and Contracts in the Heartlands of the New Public Management 3. Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps' Francesca Gains 4. Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK Oliver James 5. Contrac…
La réforme de la gestion publique et ses paradoxes: L'expérience britannique
This article offers a critical evaluation of NPM in the context of developments in the UK over the last two decades or so. It approaches this evaluation from a very specific perspective – that of what might be called “paradoxical systems theory”. The author suggests two fundamental polarities in public management. The first is the paradox between centralisation and accountability on the one side and decentralisation and involvement on the other. …
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
Public Performance - towards a new model
This is an article about performance in government. It considers how performance, in a variety of senses, has become a dominant theme in probably the majority of OECD countries (although not all). It asks some fundamental questions about what is 'performance' in, and of, government by reflecting on what governments do in terms of the policy instruments available to them. It looks briefly at how developments in the use and understanding of 'perfor…
UK Civil Service Personnel Reform: Devolution, Decentralisation and Delusion
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
Modernising Government: The Way Forward—a comment
The UK Parliament and performance: Challenging or Challenged
Many governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts of performance information. This movement has increasingly become known variously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or governance. This article focuses on the important question of how legislatures are responding to this development. Using the case of the UK's public performance measurement systems — especially since 1997 and the introduction of Public Service Agreements —…
UK Civil Service Personnel Reform: Devolution, Decentralisation and Delusion
La réforme de la gestion publique et ses paradoxes: L'expérience britannique
This article offers a critical evaluation of NPM in the context of developments in the UK over the last two decades or so. It approaches this evaluation from a very specific perspective – that of what might be called “paradoxical systems theory”. The author suggests two fundamental polarities in public management. The first is the paradox between centralisation and accountability on the one side and decentralisation and involvement on the other. …
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
Public Performance - towards a new model
This is an article about performance in government. It considers how performance, in a variety of senses, has become a dominant theme in probably the majority of OECD countries (although not all). It asks some fundamental questions about what is 'performance' in, and of, government by reflecting on what governments do in terms of the policy instruments available to them. It looks briefly at how developments in the use and understanding of 'perfor…
UK Civil Service Personnel Reform: Devolution, Decentralisation and Delusion
Public Performance - towards a new model
This is an article about performance in government. It considers how performance, in a variety of senses, has become a dominant theme in probably the majority of OECD countries (although not all). It asks some fundamental questions about what is 'performance' in, and of, government by reflecting on what governments do in terms of the policy instruments available to them. It looks briefly at how developments in the use and understanding of 'perfor…
Agency fever? Analysis of an international policy fashion
In the last 15 years, the governments of many OECD countries have transferred a wide range of functions to new, agency-type organizations. Allowing for the fact that, for comparative purposes, it is difficult precisely to define agencies, and further acknowledging that in many countries agencies are far from being new, it nevertheless remains the \ncase that there seems to have been a strong fashion for this particular organizational solution. Th…
La réforme de la gestion publique et ses paradoxes: L'expérience britannique
This article offers a critical evaluation of NPM in the context of developments in the UK over the last two decades or so. It approaches this evaluation from a very specific perspective – that of what might be called “paradoxical systems theory”. The author suggests two fundamental polarities in public management. The first is the paradox between centralisation and accountability on the one side and decentralisation and involvement on the other. …
Unbundled Government: A Critical Analysis of the Global Trend to Agencies, Quangos and Contractualisation
Part One: Setting the Scene 1. Managers managing? The international trend towards agencies, quangos and contratualization Colin Talbot 2. Patterns of structural change Geert Bouckaert and Guy B. Peters Part Two: Agencies, Quangos and Contracts in the Heartlands of the New Public Management 3. Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps' Francesca Gains 4. Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK Oliver James 5. Contrac…
Agencies: How Governments Do Things Through Semi-Autonomous Organizations
Many countries now use agencies rather than ministries to deliver central government services. There have been many claims about the benefits of organizing and delivering government in this way, but t
Consilience and Performance in the ‘Art of the State
The future of the liberal arts lies... in addressing the fundamental questions of human existence head on, without embarrassment or fear, taking them from the top down in easily understood language, and progressively rearranging them into domains of inquiry that unite the best of science and the humanities at each level of organization in turn.... I find it hard to conceive of an adequate core curriculum in colleges and universities that avoids t…
The benefits of welfare rights advice
Welfare rights advice provides a range of information, support, advice and advocacy services to a wide demographic, covering people who have multiple and varied needs, attitudes, behaviour and eligibility for services and assistance (ASA, 2003; Bateman, 2006). The National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers recently commissioned a literature review of existing research into the benefits of welfare rights advice (see Wiggan and Talbot, 2006), …
Modernising Government: The Way Forward—a comment
The UK Parliament and performance: Challenging or Challenged
Many governments across OECD countries now produce substantial amounts of performance information. This movement has increasingly become known variously as output- or outcome-based budgeting or governance. This article focuses on the important question of how legislatures are responding to this development. Using the case of the UK's public performance measurement systems — especially since 1997 and the introduction of Public Service Agreements —…
The British Administrative Elite. The Art of Change without Changing
La haute fonction publique britannique : l’art du changement sans changer ? — Une interprétation possible de l’état de la haute fonction publique britannique, définie comme le sommet de la fonction publique, serait que des vagues successives de réformes depuis 1979 aient fondamentalement changé son caractère. Auteurs des réformes et chercheurs affirment qu’une modification fondamentale se serait en effet produite. Certains voient comme une modern…
Usable Knowledge: Discipline-Oriented Versus Problem-Oriented Social Science in Public Policy
Universities are under pressure to justify the resources they consume by demonstrating ‘relevance’ and ‘impact’. Whilst the UK social sciences have been under intensified scrutiny many other countries are following this trend. Academics have responded by improving the relevancy and accessibility of their outputs particularly for policymakers. We suggest that this response is narrow and ill-conceived. The production of useful social knowledge is n…
Political science (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works)