TY - JOUR
T1 - Public services under new labour
T2 - Back to bureaucracy?
AU - Boyne, George A.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The public service policies of the present Labour Government are assessed against a conceptual model of bureaucracy. In particular, is there evidence of a shift away from the market reforms of the Conservatives, and a move towards bureaucratic methods of resource allocation and service delivery? It is concluded that there is a small, but significant, shift back to bureaucracy: If Conservative policies consisted of marketization at the margins’, then Labour reforms can be described as ‘bureaucratization at the boundaries’. The potential consequences of this change in emphasis are considered.
AB - The public service policies of the present Labour Government are assessed against a conceptual model of bureaucracy. In particular, is there evidence of a shift away from the market reforms of the Conservatives, and a move towards bureaucratic methods of resource allocation and service delivery? It is concluded that there is a small, but significant, shift back to bureaucracy: If Conservative policies consisted of marketization at the margins’, then Labour reforms can be described as ‘bureaucratization at the boundaries’. The potential consequences of this change in emphasis are considered.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032368474&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9302.00126
DO - 10.1111/1467-9302.00126
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032368474
VL - 18
SP - 43
EP - 50
JO - Public Money & Management
JF - Public Money & Management
SN - 0954-0962
IS - 3
ER -