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Title Unbundled government : a critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation / edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in public management ; 1
Routledge studies in public management ; 1.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Setting the scene; The Agency idea: sometimes old, sometimes new, sometimes borrowed, sometimes untrue; What is available and what is missing in the study of quangos?; Agencies, quangos and contracts in the heartlands of the New Public Management; Adapting the agency concept: variations within 'Next Steps'; Executive agencies and joined-up government in the UK; Contracting and accountability: a model of effective contracting drawn from the U.S. experience
Summary This comprehensive study discusses the series of changes in governmental systems and structures. It considers the varying approaches of different countries and their governmental structures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Administrative agencies -- Reorganization -- Case studies
Decentralization in government -- Case studies
Public administration.
Organizational change.
Organizational Innovation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Administrative agencies -- Reorganization
Decentralization in government
Organizational change
Public administration
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Pollitt, Christopher
Talbot, Colin
ISBN 0203507142
9780203507148
9780415314480
0415314488
1280075457
9781280075452
9781134379781
1134379781
0203337948
9780203337943