| Britain's Modernised Civil Service 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Burnham, June (Author), Pyper, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333945336 ISBN-13: 9780333945339 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: This comprehensively revised replacement volume for Robert Pyper's popular text "The British Civil Service" explains and assesses the impact on the civil service of the historic Whitehall unitary model, the New Public Management of Thatcher and Major and the modernisation agenda of the Blair government. It provides a broad-ranging introduction to the civil service today and of the demands and pressures it faces from political leaders, policy-makers and citizen-users within the multi-governmental context of devolution and EU membership. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Political Science | World - European |
| Dewey: 351.41 |
| Series: Contemporary Political Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.05 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This comprehensively revised replacement volume for Pyper's popular text The British Civil Service provides a broad-ranging introduction to the civil service today. It explains and assesses the impact on the civil service of the historic Whitehall unitary model, the New Public Management of Thatcher and Major and Blair's modernisation. |