The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

ISBN-13: 9780198277842 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 592 str.

Wright Thain; Colin Thain; Maurice Wright

Opis

With unique access to treasury Expenditure Controllers and senior financial officials in the main spending departments, the authors of this work provide a detailed and authoritative account of the roles, relationships, and inter-actions of the key players in Whitehall Expenditure Community as they confront each other in annual rituals of the Expenditure "Survey." Thain and Wright explain how the rules of the expenditure game were re-drawn in the 1980s in the relentless search for cuts, greater economy and efficiency in the design and delivery of public services, and the creation of a more enterprising administrative culture.

Recenzje

This book is likely to be of considerable interest to anyone wishing to consider the relevance of developments in the UK as part of the comparative study of public administration ... This book is, in my opinion, the most detailed and authoritative study of the work of a department of central government ever published ... As far as I know, no other study of a central government department has been so well resourced. Moreover, it was undertaken by senior academics with well established reputations in this field ... The detail contained in the book is impressive ... Some of the general findings of the research are ... supportive of what many readers will have already suspected, and it is good to have authoritative confirmation.