The changing face of Whitehall: Open government, policy development and the quest for efficiency

Political Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 258-266

  Williams, Neil ^a  

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EID: 0039835589     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923X.00160     Document Type: Article

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1. D. Marquand, The Unprincipled Society, London, Cape, 1988.
2. Cabinet Office, Your Right To Know, Cm 3818, London, The Stationery Office, 1997.
3. Ibid., s. 3.12.
4. R. Amann, 'A Sovietological View of Modern Britain', the second of two lectures delivered at Edinburgh University on 1 December 1995 in his capacity as Montague Burton Visiting Professor of International Relations.
5. C. D. Foster and F. J. Plowden, The State under Stress, Buckingham, Open University Press, 1996. For discussion of the principles see pp. 43-62.
6. For an influential account of new public management, see D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1992. For discussions critical of the use of management theories derived primarily from the private sector see P. Aucoin, 'Administrative Reforms in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles and Pendulums', Governance, 1990, pp. 115-37; also L. Gunn, 'Perspectives on Public Management' and J. Lane, 'Public and Private Leadership', both in Managing Public Organisations, ed. J. Kooiman and K. A. Eliasson, London, Sage, 1987.
7. For an influential account of new public management, see D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1992. For discussions critical of the use of management theories derived primarily from the private sector see P. Aucoin, 'Administrative Reforms in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles and Pendulums', Governance, 1990, pp. 115-37; also L. Gunn, 'Perspectives on Public Management' and J. Lane, 'Public and Private Leadership', both in Managing Public Organisations, ed. J. Kooiman and K. A. Eliasson, London, Sage, 1987.
8. For an influential account of new public management, see D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1992. For discussions critical of the use of management theories derived primarily from the private sector see P. Aucoin, 'Administrative Reforms in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles and Pendulums', Governance, 1990, pp. 115-37; also L. Gunn, 'Perspectives on Public Management' and J. Lane, 'Public and Private Leadership', both in Managing Public Organisations, ed. J. Kooiman and K. A. Eliasson, London, Sage, 1987.
9. For an influential account of new public management, see D. Osborne and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1992. For discussions critical of the use of management theories derived primarily from the private sector see P. Aucoin, 'Administrative Reforms in Public Management: Paradigms, Principles and Pendulums', Governance, 1990, pp. 115-37; also L. Gunn, 'Perspectives on Public Management' and J. Lane, 'Public and Private Leadership', both in Managing Public Organisations, ed. J. Kooiman and K. A. Eliasson, London, Sage, 1987.
10. These changes are discussed in J. Boston, J. Martin, J. Pallot and P. Walsh, New Zealand's Bureaucratic Revolution, Auckland, Oxford University Press, 1991.
11. For a review of the typology of factors governing the effectiveness of lobby organisations, see W. Grant, Pressure Groups, Politics and Democracy in Britain, Hemel Hempstead, Phillip Allan, 1989.
12. For a discussion of insider status and the costs and benefits it confers, see J. P. Olsen, 'Public Policy Making and Theories of Organisational Choice', Scandanavian Political Studies, 1972, p. 2.
13. See R. Grove-White, 'The Emerging Shape of Environmental Conflict in the 1990s', RSA Journal, June 1991. The relationship with debate about institutional change is explored further in his 'Environment, Risk and Democracy', in Greening the Millennium: The New Politics of the Environment, Oxford, Blackwell for The Political Quarterly, 1997, pp. 109-22.
14. See R. Grove-White, 'The Emerging Shape of Environmental Conflict in the 1990s', RSA Journal, June 1991. The relationship with debate about institutional change is explored further in his 'Environment, Risk and Democracy', in Greening the Millennium: The New Politics of the Environment, Oxford, Blackwell for The Political Quarterly, 1997, pp. 109-22.
15. See e.g. Grant, Pressure Groups, Politics and Democracy in Britain.
16. A discussion of how inclusive participation can be reconciled with discipline, order and coordination, and its relationship to different concepts of freedom within the liberal democratic tradition, can be found in Y. Ezrahi, The Descent of Icarus, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1990.