Stephen Cope
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Cope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Cope |
| SIGNATURE | COPE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Modernising Regulation or Regulating Modernisation? The Public, Private and Voluntary Interface in Adult Social Care
Regulation is a very significant form of managing public services in Britain, as central government increasingly relies upon regulatory agencies and mechanisms to measure and improve the performance of agencies delivering public services. The present Labour Government's modernisation strategy has strengthened the key role of state-sponsored regulation of public services, including social care. A key plank to its modernisation agenda facing public…
Reforming Public Services by Regulation: A Partnership Approach
This article examines the role of regulation in reforming public services in England and Wales. Specifically it analyses the impact of public serviceregulation for two important elements of the present Labour Government’. modernisation agenda: joined-up government and partnerships. The rhetoric of joined-up government and partnerships is strong in government pronouncements, and embraces not only collaborative working between public sector agencie…
Assessing rational-choice models of budgeting--from budget-maximising to bureaushaping: A case study of british local government
This article assesses a rational-choice model of bureaucratic behaviour - the bureau-shaping model - as an explanation of budget-making in British local government. The bureau-shaping model is essentially a reconstructed rational-choice model of bureaucratic behaviour in liberal democratic states, which emerged from critiques of its rival budgetmaximising model. The explanatory power of the bureau-shaping model is significantly superior to the bu…
Getting to the Top: Selection and Training for Senior Managers in the Police Service
This paper examines the processes by which the senior police officers in England and Wales are chosen and prepared for their role. Based upon research interviews with a sample of chief constables and assistant chief constables, it develops a critical assessment of the quality of each of the three key stages in this respect: the selection of those considered to have the potential to become senior officers, senior management training, and the appoi…
Regulating Collaborative Government: Towards Joined-Up Government
This article examines the role of regulatory agencies in the development of joined-up government. It argues that they have the potential to both control and influence those agencies they regulate, and consequently constitute potentially significant catalysts for joined-up government. However, there are dangers that rivalry between regulatory agencies (and their different sponsors) and non-collaborative regulatory regimes (including game-playing a…
Restructuring Local Government in Hampshire: A Case of Mistaken Community Identity
This article examines the impact of the idea of community identity upon the Local Government Review in England. It considers the extent to which the notion of community identity was built into the Local Government Review nationally and, moreover, locally in Hampshire, and the extent to which it shaped the outcomes of the Local Government Review. Three conceptions of community identity are examined ‐ affective, effective and deliberative community…
Police Governance, the Association of Chief Police Officers and Constitutional Change
After nearly two decades of Conservative rule in Parliament, constitutional change has become an increasingly significant issue on the political agenda, embracing considerable discussion about the constitution of the police (largely centred on issues of police accountability and local democratic control of the police). This article seeks to further this debate by examining the role of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and…
Contracting-Out in Local Government: Cutting by Privatising
This article is a case study on the decision made by a local authority to contract- out school cleaning. This case study generates empirical findings, and is thus 'generalizable to theoretical propositions and not to populations or universes' (Yin, 1989, p21). It examines the making of the decision by Kent CC to contract- out school cleaning, and provides theoretical analysis on whether contracting- out of school cleaning reduced spending and whe…
Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon
The Goldsmids and the Development of the London Money Market during the Napoleonic Wars
Commercial Banking Legislation and Control
Restructuring Local Government in Hampshire: A Case of Mistaken Community Identity
This article examines the impact of the idea of community identity upon the Local Government Review in England. It considers the extent to which the notion of community identity was built into the Local Government Review nationally and, moreover, locally in Hampshire, and the extent to which it shaped the outcomes of the Local Government Review. Three conceptions of community identity are examined ‐ affective, effective and deliberative community…
The Goldsmids and the Development of the London Money Market during the Napoleonic Wars
Modernising Regulation or Regulating Modernisation? The Public, Private and Voluntary Interface in Adult Social Care
Regulation is a very significant form of managing public services in Britain, as central government increasingly relies upon regulatory agencies and mechanisms to measure and improve the performance of agencies delivering public services. The present Labour Government's modernisation strategy has strengthened the key role of state-sponsored regulation of public services, including social care. A key plank to its modernisation agenda facing public…
Regulating Collaborative Government: Towards Joined-Up Government
This article examines the role of regulatory agencies in the development of joined-up government. It argues that they have the potential to both control and influence those agencies they regulate, and consequently constitute potentially significant catalysts for joined-up government. However, there are dangers that rivalry between regulatory agencies (and their different sponsors) and non-collaborative regulatory regimes (including game-playing a…
Contracting-Out in Local Government: Cutting by Privatising
This article is a case study on the decision made by a local authority to contract- out school cleaning. This case study generates empirical findings, and is thus 'generalizable to theoretical propositions and not to populations or universes' (Yin, 1989, p21). It examines the making of the decision by Kent CC to contract- out school cleaning, and provides theoretical analysis on whether contracting- out of school cleaning reduced spending and whe…
Commercial Banking Legislation and Control
Police Governance, the Association of Chief Police Officers and Constitutional Change
After nearly two decades of Conservative rule in Parliament, constitutional change has become an increasingly significant issue on the political agenda, embracing considerable discussion about the constitution of the police (largely centred on issues of police accountability and local democratic control of the police). This article seeks to further this debate by examining the role of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and…
Commercial Banking Legislation and Control
The Goldsmids and the Development of the London Money Market during the Napoleonic Wars
Walter Boyd: A Merchant Banker in the Age of Napoleon
Contracting-Out in Local Government: Cutting by Privatising
This article is a case study on the decision made by a local authority to contract- out school cleaning. This case study generates empirical findings, and is thus 'generalizable to theoretical propositions and not to populations or universes' (Yin, 1989, p21). It examines the making of the decision by Kent CC to contract- out school cleaning, and provides theoretical analysis on whether contracting- out of school cleaning reduced spending and whe…
Police Governance, the Association of Chief Police Officers and Constitutional Change
After nearly two decades of Conservative rule in Parliament, constitutional change has become an increasingly significant issue on the political agenda, embracing considerable discussion about the constitution of the police (largely centred on issues of police accountability and local democratic control of the police). This article seeks to further this debate by examining the role of the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and…
Restructuring Local Government in Hampshire: A Case of Mistaken Community Identity
This article examines the impact of the idea of community identity upon the Local Government Review in England. It considers the extent to which the notion of community identity was built into the Local Government Review nationally and, moreover, locally in Hampshire, and the extent to which it shaped the outcomes of the Local Government Review. Three conceptions of community identity are examined ‐ affective, effective and deliberative community…
Getting to the Top: Selection and Training for Senior Managers in the Police Service
This paper examines the processes by which the senior police officers in England and Wales are chosen and prepared for their role. Based upon research interviews with a sample of chief constables and assistant chief constables, it develops a critical assessment of the quality of each of the three key stages in this respect: the selection of those considered to have the potential to become senior officers, senior management training, and the appoi…
Regulating Collaborative Government: Towards Joined-Up Government
This article examines the role of regulatory agencies in the development of joined-up government. It argues that they have the potential to both control and influence those agencies they regulate, and consequently constitute potentially significant catalysts for joined-up government. However, there are dangers that rivalry between regulatory agencies (and their different sponsors) and non-collaborative regulatory regimes (including game-playing a…
Assessing rational-choice models of budgeting--from budget-maximising to bureaushaping: A case study of british local government
This article assesses a rational-choice model of bureaucratic behaviour - the bureau-shaping model - as an explanation of budget-making in British local government. The bureau-shaping model is essentially a reconstructed rational-choice model of bureaucratic behaviour in liberal democratic states, which emerged from critiques of its rival budgetmaximising model. The explanatory power of the bureau-shaping model is significantly superior to the bu…
Reforming Public Services by Regulation: A Partnership Approach
This article examines the role of regulation in reforming public services in England and Wales. Specifically it analyses the impact of public serviceregulation for two important elements of the present Labour Government’. modernisation agenda: joined-up government and partnerships. The rhetoric of joined-up government and partnerships is strong in government pronouncements, and embraces not only collaborative working between public sector agencie…
Modernising Regulation or Regulating Modernisation? The Public, Private and Voluntary Interface in Adult Social Care
Regulation is a very significant form of managing public services in Britain, as central government increasingly relies upon regulatory agencies and mechanisms to measure and improve the performance of agencies delivering public services. The present Labour Government's modernisation strategy has strengthened the key role of state-sponsored regulation of public services, including social care. A key plank to its modernisation agenda facing public…
Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Management (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works)