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100 1 $aGreer, Patricia,$d1963-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93096022
245 10 $aTransforming central government :$bthe Next Steps Initiative /$cPatricia Greer.
260 $aBuckingham [England] ;$aPhiladelphia :$bOpen University Press,$c1994.
300 $a140 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aPublic policy and management
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a1. Next Steps: Origins -- 2. Evolution or revolution? -- 3. Introducing the Department of Social Security and its agencies -- 4. The main organizational actors in the Next Steps power struggle -- 5. The move to contract government -- 6. Parliamentary and public accountability -- 7. The changing civil service -- 8. Public service reform in New Zealand and Canada -- 9. Evaluating Next Steps.
520 $aPatricia Greer examines the Next Steps initiative which is transforming the functions, organization and traditions of the Executive and its relations with Parliament in the UK. She uses the case study of the Department of Social Security and its agencies to explore the development of Next Steps and to consider the implications of the Next Steps experiment for Whitehall, for the British system of Government, for other countries involved in the decentralization of activity and for administrative theory.
520 8 $aThis case study not only provides an inside view into the experiences of the Department of Social Security but also raises issues of wider relevance. Research for this book included interviews with ministers and central departmental and agency officials involved with Next Steps in Britain, and interviews with officials involved in comparable reforms in Canada and New Zealand.
520 8 $aThe concluding chapter provides an overall evaluation of the success of Next Steps in achieving its aims of improving efficiency and quality of service from the point of view of customers, staff and parliamentarians.
650 0 $aAdministrative agencies$zGreat Britain$xReorganization.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1979-1997.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056924
650 0 $aCivil service reform$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120275
610 10 $aGreat Britain.$bDepartment of Social Security.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no89007795
830 0 $aPublic policy and management.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91124674
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