Author: James Radcliffe
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The White Paper, Cmnd 4506, published in 1970 on the reorganization of central government, declared an intention to create a new style of government. This text examines the implementation of this aim through the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Enviroment.
The Reorganisation of British Central Government
Author: James Radcliffe
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The White Paper, Cmnd 4506, published in 1970 on the reorganization of central government, declared an intention to create a new style of government. This text examines the implementation of this aim through the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Enviroment.
Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The White Paper, Cmnd 4506, published in 1970 on the reorganization of central government, declared an intention to create a new style of government. This text examines the implementation of this aim through the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Enviroment.
Reorganising central government
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102963618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Between May 2005 and June 2009, there were over 90 reorganisations to central government. This report finds that these cannot demonstrate value for money, given that most had vague objectives and that costs and benefits were not tracked. The average annual cost of reorganisations is almost £200 million, around 85 per cent of which is for the reorganisation of arms length bodies. Since 1980, 25 central government departments have been created, including 13 which no longer exist. By comparison, in the United States only two new departments have been created over the same period. Central government bodies are weak at identifying and securing the benefits they hope to gain from reorganisation. There is no standard approach for preparing and assessing business cases setting out intended benefits against expected costs. More than half of reorganisations do not compare expected costs and benefits of alternative options, so there can be no certainty that the chosen approaches are the most cost effective. Furthermore, no departments set metrics to track the benefits that should justify reorganisation - making it impossible for them to demonstrate that the eventual benefits outweigh costs. There is no requirement for bodies to disclose the costs of reorganisations after they happen - meaning the true cost of reorganisation is often hidden. The decisions to reorganise departments and arms length bodies are often taken at short notice and with inadequate understanding of what could go wrong.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 9780102963618
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Between May 2005 and June 2009, there were over 90 reorganisations to central government. This report finds that these cannot demonstrate value for money, given that most had vague objectives and that costs and benefits were not tracked. The average annual cost of reorganisations is almost £200 million, around 85 per cent of which is for the reorganisation of arms length bodies. Since 1980, 25 central government departments have been created, including 13 which no longer exist. By comparison, in the United States only two new departments have been created over the same period. Central government bodies are weak at identifying and securing the benefits they hope to gain from reorganisation. There is no standard approach for preparing and assessing business cases setting out intended benefits against expected costs. More than half of reorganisations do not compare expected costs and benefits of alternative options, so there can be no certainty that the chosen approaches are the most cost effective. Furthermore, no departments set metrics to track the benefits that should justify reorganisation - making it impossible for them to demonstrate that the eventual benefits outweigh costs. There is no requirement for bodies to disclose the costs of reorganisations after they happen - meaning the true cost of reorganisation is often hidden. The decisions to reorganise departments and arms length bodies are often taken at short notice and with inadequate understanding of what could go wrong.
Government Intervention in the Reorganisation of Listed Companies in China
Author: Huimiao Zhao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Discusses the nature, extent and appropriateness of government intervention in the bankruptcy of listed companies in China.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496652
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Discusses the nature, extent and appropriateness of government intervention in the bankruptcy of listed companies in China.
Thatcher and Thatcherism
Author: Eric J. Evans
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415136946
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Eric J. Evans gives a controversial account centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher. He argues that 'Thatcherism' was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its domestic and international objectives.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415136946
Category : Conservatism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Eric J. Evans gives a controversial account centring on the career of Margaret Thatcher. He argues that 'Thatcherism' was a bold experiment in ideologically driven government which failed to meet its domestic and international objectives.
Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 1956. (Corrected Up to the 31st March 1957).
Author: India. Election Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apportionment (Election law)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Reorganisation of British Local Government
Author: John Dearlove
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521223416
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This volume was first published in 1979, just a few years after the Local Government Act of 1972 redrew the map of British local government. Local authorities were also encouraged to change their organization and methods of work; anxiety was expressed about finance, councillor 'calibre' and the credibility of the whole system itself; and neighbourhood councils and public participation in planning were introduced. John Dearlove's aim is to make sense of these changes and the discussion they generated. He does this by showing that both the official case for reorganization and the academic discussion of it have hindered their own understanding by uncritically accepting superficial traditional wisdoms which fail to reveal the concealed ideological positions behind reorganization. Thus, he aims to develop a truly political perspective on reorganisation which is rounded out and given greater depth by the insertion at appropriate points of comparative material drawn from American experience and studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521223416
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This volume was first published in 1979, just a few years after the Local Government Act of 1972 redrew the map of British local government. Local authorities were also encouraged to change their organization and methods of work; anxiety was expressed about finance, councillor 'calibre' and the credibility of the whole system itself; and neighbourhood councils and public participation in planning were introduced. John Dearlove's aim is to make sense of these changes and the discussion they generated. He does this by showing that both the official case for reorganization and the academic discussion of it have hindered their own understanding by uncritically accepting superficial traditional wisdoms which fail to reveal the concealed ideological positions behind reorganization. Thus, he aims to develop a truly political perspective on reorganisation which is rounded out and given greater depth by the insertion at appropriate points of comparative material drawn from American experience and studies.
Bureaumetrics, the Quantitative Comparison of British Central Government Agencies
Author: Christopher Hood
Publisher: University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher: University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Reform of British Central Government
Author: James Robertson
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Managing Complex Educational Change
Author: Keith Pocklington
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317835247
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change? This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change: *orchestration *flexible planning and coordination *culture building and communication *differentiated support Managing Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317835247
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Why is educational change becoming more complex? Are there patterns in this complexity? How may managers cope effectively with complex educational change? This book investigates initiatives to reorganise school systems, involving highly emotive closures and mergers. It reveals how reorganisation was a complex change to manage because it was large-scale, componential, systematic, differentially impacting and context dependent. These characteristics affected management tasks, generating ambiguity in the change process that limited managers' capacity to control it. The authors offer four management themes as realistic strategies for coping with complex educational change: *orchestration *flexible planning and coordination *culture building and communication *differentiated support Managing Complex Educational Change is essential reading for all concerned with educational change - managers in schools and colleges, students on advanced courses, trainers, local and regional administrators, academics and policy makers. The research has general implications for the theory and practice of managing complex change.
Public Administration in Germany
Author: Sabine Kuhlmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030536971
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030536971
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.