Decentralizing The Civil Service
Decentralizing The Civil Service
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公务员权力下放
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2003
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A. Massey
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R. Rhodes;Paul Carmichael;J. Mcmillan;A. Massey
这本书涉及联合王国的公务员制度，考察了自1970年以来的特点和趋势。它提供了白厅以外的英国公务员制度的地图，对英国的公务员制度进行了逐个国家的分析。它考虑了公务员性质的变化对我们理解英国治理的影响，特别是在1980年代和1990年代公共部门管理改革的背景下，以及自1998年以来宪法改革(主要是权力下放)的影响。鉴于权力下放一直被描述为一个过程，而不是一个事件，这本书提供了证据，证明英国公共行政某些部门存在的长期分歧可能会被复制到英国其他地方。作者还探讨了两个有争议的命题。首先，他们问英国是否正在从“威斯敏斯特模式”的单一、强势的执政者转变为以机构分裂为特征的“差异化政体”。其次，他们考虑最近变化的一个意想不到的后果是不是“国家空心化”。英国的行政部门是否正在将职能向下下放给被下放的政府和特殊目的机构，并向外下放给地区办事处和机构，从而导致中央能力的丧失？为了给出这些问题的答案，这里收集了大量的实证数据(包括定量和定性的数据)。公务员分权评估了英国在经历了20年的公共部门管理改革和新工党的宪法改革计划后不断变化的公务员制度，其中最引人注目的是将权力下放给苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰。这一评估对我们如何看待英国的治理具有重大影响。
This book is concerned with the civil services of the United Kingdom, examining their characteristics and trends since 1970. It provides a map of the British civil service beyond Whitehall, giving an individual country-by-country analysis of the civil services of the UK. It considers the implications of the changing nature of the civil services for our understanding of British governance, especially in the context of the public sector management reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the impact of constitutional change (chiefly devolution) since 1998. Given that devolution has been characterized as a process rather than an event, the book brings to bear evidence of how existing longstanding differences within some parts of British public administration may come to be replicated elsewhere in the UK. The authors also explore two controversial propositions. First they ask whether Britain is moving from the unitory, strong executive of the 'Westminster model' to a 'differentiated polity' characterized by institutional fragmentation. Second, they consider whether an unintended consequence of recent changes is a 'hollowing out of the state'. Is the British executive losing functions downwards to devolved governments and special-purpose bodies and outwards to regional offices and agencies with a resulting loss of central capacity? Substantial empirical data (both quantitative and qualitative) has been amassed here in order to give answers to these questions. Decentralizing the Civil Service assesses the UK's changing civil services in the wake of two decades of public sector management reforms and New Labour's constitutional reform programme, most notably devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This assessment has significant implications for how we view governance in the UK.