Not What It Said on the Tin? Reflections on Three Decades of UK Public Management Reform

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 409-428

  Hood, Christopher ^a   Dixon, Ruth ^b  

^a ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

administration costs; fairness and consistency; government modernization; managerialism; New Public Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989960891     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faam.12095     Document Type: Article

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