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Radical reforms of the civil service during the 1980s and 90s have broken upthe old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agenciesconcerned with policy implementation and a central core comcerned with policymaking. The radical reforms are described and assessed in terms of the publicchoice and public management theories which underpin them. Bureaumaximizingand bureaushaping models are used to predict the directions we should expectthe reforms to take and their likely success. The key central chapter of thebook examines the equivocal use of the term efficiency used to justify themanagerial changes. This is the first textbook which critically examinestheories of bureaucracy together with an introductory and descriptive accountof the civil service today. «
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