The Political Administration of Economic Decline
British Central Government Since the 1960s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6360905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Pollitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 514-514 |
| Publication date | 1981-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/976261 |
| OpenAlex | W2329878767 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Most British public administration textbooks still seem to conclude with discussion of the way ahead after the Fulton Report on the Civil Service; of the creation of new giant departments and semi-independent agencies; or of improving techniques for policy analysis and the medium-term planning of public expenditure. Yet to the designers of Whitehall these are the themes of a bygone age: tunes played with gusto in the late '60s and early '70s which quickly became quite unfashionable. A more pessimistic, pragmatic style has long since replaced the optimistic rationalism of that distant-seeming period. The present paper seeks to map this change by identifying some of the key structural elements underlying the watershed of the mid-1970s.1 In so doing certain tentative parallels (and differences) are identified as between the British and U.S. public sectors
Administration (probate law · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |