The Reform Agenda in the Northern Ireland Civil Service

This article examines the impact of the reform and modernization agenda of the United Kingdom Home Civil Service on the Northern Ireland Civil Service, which has always existed as a separate civil service. It seeks to identify the differentiation in responses to the main UK reform initiatives in recent years and, in particular, to consider in this context the first comprehensive reform document to be produced by the Northern Ireland Civil Service, which appeared in 2004. A typology of four different influences is examined to explain the diversity of responses categorized as parity, integration, devolution and direct rule. Consideration is given to the significance of a separate civil service in the pattern of adjustments to Home Civil Service reforms and in facilitating other distinctive approaches. Comment is also made on the possible relevance of Northern Ireland experience to the absence of a separate civil service in Scotland and Wales following devolution

Civil service · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Modernization theory · Northern ireland · Political science · Public service · Sociology · Typology · Healthcare innovation and challenges · Irish and British Studies · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research

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