Whitehall Watching: - reflections on innovation, inertia and ineptitude in British government (2003-2008) - Couverture souple

Talbot PhD, Prof Colin R

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1974306348 ISBN 13 : 9781974306343

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The period 2003-2008 was the height of the New Labour government UK. Having been elected in 1997, New Labour had embarked on an ambitious reform program for Government and public services. The center-piece of these reforms was a new system of what has sometimes been called “performance budgeting” – a combined system of 3-year “Spending Reviews” and a set of performance targets called “Public Service Agreements”. Colin Talbot analyzed these developments and other reforms in Whitehall as they happened. As a frequent expert witness and specialist adviser to Select Committees in both Houses of Parliament and an adviser to the UKs National Audit Office Talbot had a unique vantage point to view these changes. As a former practitioner himself, Talbot brought an experienced and realistically critical eye to the understanding of these developments. Frequently holding up a mirror to Government and Whitehall, he often asked “are you really doing what you say you’re doing, and is it working?”. In over 50 articles written for a variety of practitioner and other media outlets as these events unfolded, Talbot both chronicles and critiques the reforms. As a “first draft of history” this collection is a valuable contemporary source.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Colin R Talbot PhD is Professor of Government at the University of Manchester and a research associate at Cambridge Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Before becoming an academic in 1990, Colin worked in a variety of jobs mainly in the public sector from 1969. He has advised Government, Parliament, the National Audit Office and many other public bodies in the UK and in over two dozen countries. He has published half-a-dozen books, numerous academic and practitioner and media articles. He has been an active blogger for nearly a decade and is a regular commentator on UK TV and radio. His personal blog is at https://colinrtalbot.wordpress.com He currently lives in greater Manchester with his wife, Dr Carole Talbot, who is also an academic collaborator, and their son, Alex.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1974306348
• ISBN 13: 9781974306343
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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