Adrian Webb
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Webb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Webb |
| SIGNATURE | WEBB A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
More than just charts
The Hydrographic Office is commonly known for its navigational charts. However, there is plenty of evidence to show how although chart production and supply was its main objective, there were also many other areas of activity in which it was involved. The head of this department was the Hydrographer to the Admiralty Board, a man well versed in hydrographic surveying and navigation, but also many other aspects of the wider field of nautical scienc…
Intergovernmental Relations after Devolution
Performance Appraisal in UK Universities
This article presents research evidence concerning the introduction of performance appraisal in UK universities. The notion of ‘procedural compliance’ is proposed to draw attention to the implications of the largely externally imposed nature of appraisal in universities. The article reports the findings deriving from a study of appraisal in four universities. The notion of procedural compliance usefully illuminates the reactions of respondents to…
Coordination
Coordination is a perennial problem for public services — most especially the human and social services. British policy towards community care and de-hospitalisation is examined as a case study of governmental attempts to improve inter-organisation relations. Three questions are addressed: do the theoretical approaches within the public policy literatures offer policy makers a coherent guide to action; have successive government policies been inf…
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 …
A Joint Approach to Social Policy
Public Expenditure and Policy Implementation
This article explores the contention that the conventions of public expenditure accounting conceal, rather than reveal, the real nature and implications of resource trends. A benchmark — a constant level of service output — is established as a basis for examining the relationship between trends in expenditure inputs and service outputs. Changes in unit costs are identified as the major source of deviation between expenditure and output trends. Th…
Voluntary Social Action
Power and Policy Making
POLICY MAKING IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF POWER AND RATIONALITY BY Brian Smith. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY: THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CHOICE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA by Arnold Heidenheimer
Planning the Social Services
One of the consequences of the Seebohm inspired reorganisation of the personal social services has been a marked increase in the attention and resources directed to management and planning within the local authority social service departments. One suspects that, at least in terms of speed and scale of its development, this outcome of reorganisation was an unexpected one. Nevertheless, policy decisions have encouraged the trend, none more so perha…
Income Redistribution and the Welfare State
Planning Enquiries and Amenity Policy
Social Service Administration
Coordination
Coordination is a perennial problem for public services — most especially the human and social services. British policy towards community care and de-hospitalisation is examined as a case study of governmental attempts to improve inter-organisation relations. Three questions are addressed: do the theoretical approaches within the public policy literatures offer policy makers a coherent guide to action; have successive government policies been inf…
Intergovernmental Relations after Devolution
Public Expenditure and Policy Implementation
This article explores the contention that the conventions of public expenditure accounting conceal, rather than reveal, the real nature and implications of resource trends. A benchmark — a constant level of service output — is established as a basis for examining the relationship between trends in expenditure inputs and service outputs. Changes in unit costs are identified as the major source of deviation between expenditure and output trends. Th…
More than just charts
The Hydrographic Office is commonly known for its navigational charts. However, there is plenty of evidence to show how although chart production and supply was its main objective, there were also many other areas of activity in which it was involved. The head of this department was the Hydrographer to the Admiralty Board, a man well versed in hydrographic surveying and navigation, but also many other aspects of the wider field of nautical scienc…
Social Service Administration
Social Service Administration
Income Redistribution and the Welfare State
Planning Enquiries and Amenity Policy
Planning the Social Services
One of the consequences of the Seebohm inspired reorganisation of the personal social services has been a marked increase in the attention and resources directed to management and planning within the local authority social service departments. One suspects that, at least in terms of speed and scale of its development, this outcome of reorganisation was an unexpected one. Nevertheless, policy decisions have encouraged the trend, none more so perha…
Power and Policy Making
POLICY MAKING IN BRITISH GOVERNMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF POWER AND RATIONALITY BY Brian Smith. COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY: THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CHOICE IN EUROPE AND AMERICA by Arnold Heidenheimer
Voluntary Social Action
Public Expenditure and Policy Implementation
This article explores the contention that the conventions of public expenditure accounting conceal, rather than reveal, the real nature and implications of resource trends. A benchmark — a constant level of service output — is established as a basis for examining the relationship between trends in expenditure inputs and service outputs. Changes in unit costs are identified as the major source of deviation between expenditure and output trends. Th…
A Joint Approach to Social Policy
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 …
Coordination
Coordination is a perennial problem for public services — most especially the human and social services. British policy towards community care and de-hospitalisation is examined as a case study of governmental attempts to improve inter-organisation relations. Three questions are addressed: do the theoretical approaches within the public policy literatures offer policy makers a coherent guide to action; have successive government policies been inf…
Performance Appraisal in UK Universities
This article presents research evidence concerning the introduction of performance appraisal in UK universities. The notion of ‘procedural compliance’ is proposed to draw attention to the implications of the largely externally imposed nature of appraisal in universities. The article reports the findings deriving from a study of appraisal in four universities. The notion of procedural compliance usefully illuminates the reactions of respondents to…
Intergovernmental Relations after Devolution
More than just charts
The Hydrographic Office is commonly known for its navigational charts. However, there is plenty of evidence to show how although chart production and supply was its main objective, there were also many other areas of activity in which it was involved. The head of this department was the Hydrographer to the Admiralty Board, a man well versed in hydrographic surveying and navigation, but also many other aspects of the wider field of nautical scienc…
Political science (11 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public economics (4 works)