Devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was a landmark reform, but one born in relatively benign economic and political circumstances. The picture today could not be more different,… read more
Description: The performance of the public services, from education and policing to health and recycling, is a matter of concern in many countries. Issues of public service efficiency, cost, and… read more
A new book entitled In Comparative Administrative Change and Reform: Lesson Learned has been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The Editors are Jon Pierre and Patricia W. Ingraham. ISBN 978-0-7735-3659-3. Chapter… read more
The New Public Governance by Stephen P. Osborne is now published in paperback. Stephen is a researcher with the Public Services programme, and the book also includes chapters written… read more
The Blame Game: Spin Bureaucracy and Self-Preservation in Government by Christopher Hood The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational… read more
Connecting knowledge and performance in public services: From knowing to doing Edited by Kieran Walshe, Gill Harvey and Pauline Jas With an introduction by Christopher Hood, this major Programme… read more
Political Quarterly Special Issue, February 2010 Options for Britain II: Cross Cutting Policy Issues – Changes and Challenges offers an assessment of the last decade of British public policy… read more
Oxford University Press, available June 2010 Edited by Helen Margetts, Perri 6, and Christopher Hood. Further details can be found here This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects… read more
Oxford University Press, available June 2010 by Colin Talbot, Public Services Programme Fellowship Further details can be found here How well do governments do in converting the resources they… read more
This brochure gives details of every project and investigator in the Public Services Programme, as well as a general programme overview.
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