Agency Termination in the UK

What Explains the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos

Bibliographic Data

ID6406838
AuthorsChris O’leary (0000-0002-4097-8439, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume38
Issue6
Pages1327-1344
Publication date2015-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402382.2015.1010273
OpenAlexW2017094923
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited19

In October 2010, the UK’s Coalition Government announced a radical reduction in the number of public bodies in the UK. This research tests the impact of three factors identified in the termination literature as affecting agency survival: political turnover, age and agency type. The research found that advisory Non-Departmental Public Bodies were five times more likely to have been identified for abolition or merger than other agency types. The research also found that agency age was a factor, but that political turnover was not significant

Agency (philosophy · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration