Mapping the Quango State
Mapping the Quango State

Author: Public Administration Committee

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 9780102221015

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The Committee's previous report on quangos (HC209, 1998-99) proposed the need for a comprehensive map of government and the organisations which carry out functions on its behalf. It was seen as a step to bringing some clarity and consistency and help the Government's aim of making public bodies more open and accountable. This report makes a contribution to the mapping exercise. The first presents the different types of public bodies and their number. It counts 297 executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), 536 advisory NDPBs, 303 task forces, 297 appointed governance under devolved administrations and 5338 local bodies. In the second part it analyses how accountable and open the bodies are and the progress that has been made since 1997. Quangos are a permanent part of government but they have just grown, and the Committee thinks there is an urgent need of a review of their principles and practice.

Exploring British Politics
Exploring British Politics

Author: Mark Garnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 627

ISBN-13: 1317860969

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Concise, comprehensive and accessible, Exploring British Politics presents an insightful approach to British politics with a special emphasis on developments since the 2010 general election and the formation of Britain’s first coalition government since 1945.Designed to stimulate critical analysis and provoke lively debate, it provides new perspectives on two key themes – the health of British democracy and the transition from traditional models of government to more flexible forms of ‘governance’.

Making and Implementing Public Policy
Making and Implementing Public Policy

Author: Catherine Bochel

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1137484659

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This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented. It introduces the concepts and theoretical approaches that underpin the study of the policy process, reflects upon key developments and applies these the practice of policy formulation and implementation.

Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise
Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise

Author: Susan Owens

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0191063045

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This book presents a fascinating analysis of expertise and policy formation, based on an in-depth study of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. The Commission provided expert advice to governments from 1970 to 2011. Often portrayed as a scientific body, it was in fact an interesting hybrid, which embodied wide-ranging expertise. It delivered thirty-three reports, leaving a significant mark on British environmental policy, and having influence within Europe and beyond. Drawing upon an extensive literature and a wide range of sources, Knowledge, Policy, and Expertise provides the only full account of this important advisory body, covering a period in which the policy landscape was profoundly transformed. It offers a rich and detailed analysis of authority, autonomy, and trust; of the diverse roles that advisors can play and the networks within which they operate; and of the circumstances of influence in which expert advice comes to be accepted gratefully, used strategically, absorbed in diffuse ways, or ignored. Above all, this book demonstrates the complexity and contingency of knowledge-policy relations, contributing substantially to a theory of expertise, and drawing out important implications for the future of good advice.

Working Across Boundaries
Working Across Boundaries

Author: Helen Sullivan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 140394010X

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Collaboration between governments, business, the voluntary and community sectors is now central to the way public policy is made, managed and delivered. This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the theory, policy and practice of collaboration. Written by two leading authorities in the field the book explores the experience of collaboration in regeneration, health and other policy sectors, and assesses the consequences of the emergence of public-private partnerships contrasting the UK experience to that elsewhere in the world.

The Governance of Public and Non-profit Organisations
The Governance of Public and Non-profit Organisations

Author: Chris Cornforth

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780415359924

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Essential reading for academics and students, this work brings together analyses based upon some of the best empirical studies of public and non-profit governance in the United Kingdom.

Delivering Social Welfare
Delivering Social Welfare

Author: Derek Birrell

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1447319192

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As the system of governance and delivery of social welfare in the UK radically changes, this important new book argues that the extent of this change is such that it could be considered a fundamental transformation or even a revolution. It shows how a new public governance perspective has replaced the dominance of new public management, reflecting the increasingly plural and fragmented nature of public policy implementation. Drawing on examples across a range of policy areas it assesses how changes in social policy and governance interact in the delivery of the main areas of social policy and social welfare. The book will be essential reading for researches, students and policy makers.