A revolution in Whitehall? Changes in British central government since 1979
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6406470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G W Jones (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Gw Jones |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 238-261 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402388908424751 |
| OpenAlex | W2037635861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
Since the Conservatives came to power in 1979 there have been important changes in British central government which have their intellectual origins in managerialist thinking of the 1960s, but owe their recent implementation to the commitment of the Prime Minister to reform the civil service along lines advocated by ‘new right’ or ‘public choice’ theorists. While most institutional reforms of departments were for political reasons, changes in the processes of the civil service can be seen as an extension of developments beginning with the Rayner Scrutinies, and moving through the Financial Management Initiative and the Efficiency Strategy to Executive Agencies. The British unified civil service is challenged by pressures for fragmentation, but limits to the changes are set by the dominance of the concepts of ministerial responsibility to Parliament, parliamentary audit, and of Treasury control
Civil service · Dominance (genetics · Government (linguistics · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prime minister · Public service · Sociology · Treasury · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Quangos in Britain
The Politics of Local Government
The Fulton Report
Explaining the Privatization Boom
The Thatcher Government, the Financial Management Initiative, and the ‘New CML Service’
The Development of the Thatcher Government's ‘Grand Strategy’ for the Civil Service
The Role of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit
Bureaucrats, Budgets and the Growth of the State
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1990 - 2014 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |