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A Government That Worked Better and Cost Less?: Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government
Contributor(s): Hood, Christopher (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199687021     ISBN-13: 9780199687022
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $61.95  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration
- Political Science | Comparative Politics
Dewey: 351
LCCN: 2014954101
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" L (1.20 lbs) 264 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government
makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to cost and performance in UK government during the last thirty years.

A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? aims to address that gap, offering a unique evaluation of UK government modernization programmes from 1980 to the present day. The book provides a distinctive framework for evaluating long-term performance in government, bringing together the 'working
better' and 'costing less' dimensions, and presents detailed primary evidence within that framework.

This book explores the implications of their findings for widely held ideas about public management, the questions they present, and their policy implications for a period in which pressures to make government 'work better and cost less' are unlikely to go away.
 
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