{"product_id":"the-civil-service-keith-dowding-9780415075671","title":"The Civil Service","description":"\u003cp\u003eRadical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policy-making. The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms of the public choice and public management theories which underpin them. Bureau-maximizing and bureau-shaping models are used to predict the directions we should expect the reforms to take and their likely success. The key central chapter of the book examines the equivocal use of the term \"efficiency\" used to justify the managerial changes. This is the first textbook which critically examines theories of bureaucracy together with an introductory and descriptive account of the civil service today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Dowding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041507567X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415075671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Keith Dowding","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064864420095,"sku":"9780415075671","price":240.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94042cc5-ef9e-4c86-aeb8-bd8a1aed6d09.jpg?v=1768671548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-civil-service-keith-dowding-9780415075671","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}