Delivering joined–up government in the UK: dimensions, issues and problems
Delivering joined–up government in the UK: dimensions, issues and problems
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DOI:
10.1111/1467-9299.00321
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
T. Ling
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作者:
T. Ling
In the UK, joined–up government (JUG) was a central part of the first Blair government’s programme for public sector reform. It remains a pivotal, if more muted, feature of the second term. We will identify the range of disparate activities that have been branded as ‘joined up’. We then look at the variety of official guidance coming from the centre of government to highlight the overlapping and competing strategies that underpinned the implementation of joined–up government. Various competing strategies have been advocated and implemented at any one time. Therefore the situation was more fluid and more contested than might be inferred from the use of the homogenizing term ‘joined–up government’. We conclude by briefly considering what this implies for our understanding of intra–state relationships, of the relationships between public agencies and civil society, and the relationship between JUG and the politics of the Third Way.