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The Treasury and Whitehall

The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

By: Colin Thain,Maurice Wright

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The Treasury and Whitehall

The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

By: Colin Thain,Maurice Wright

This comprehensive account of the Treasury and its control of public expenditure assesses the record through the years of the Thatcher and Major Governments, explaining how key spending decisions are made.

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Oxford University Press

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0198277849

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9780198277842

Theories of Performance

Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain

By: Colin Talbot

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Theories of Performance

Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain

By: Colin Talbot

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us - like taxes - into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? This question has become increasingly prominent in public debates over the past couple of decades, especially in the developed world but also in developing countries. As the state has grown during the second half of the 20th century, so pressures to justify its role in producing public services have also increased. Governments across the world have implemented all sorts of policies aimed at improving performance. But how much do we know about what actually improves performance of public organisations and services? On what theories, explicit or more often implicit, are these policies based? The answer is: too much and too little. There are dozens of theories, models, assumptions, and prescriptions about 'what works' in improving performance. But there's been very little attempt to 'join up' theories about performance and make some sense of the evidence we have within a coherent theoretical framework. This ground-breaking book sets out to begin to fill this gap by creatively synthesising the various fragments and insights about performance into a framework for systematically exploring and understanding how public sector performance is shaped. It focuses on three key aspects: the external 'performance regime' that drives performance of public agencies; the multiple dimensions that drive performance from within; and the competing public values that frame both of these and shape what public expects from public services.

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OUP Oxford

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0191614629

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9780191614620

Regulation Inside Government

Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleazebusters

By: Christopher Hood,Oliver James,George Jones,Colin Scott,Tony Travers

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Regulation Inside Government

Waste-Watchers, Quality Police, and Sleazebusters

By: Christopher Hood,Oliver James,George Jones,Colin Scott,Tony Travers

Regulation Inside Government analyses the army of inspectors, auditors, grievance-chasers, standard-setters and other bodies overseeing contemporary public organizations. Based on an unprecedented two-year inside study of British government by a team of leading scholars, this book provides an original analytical perspective on regulation within government. The book begins by examining the size of internal government regulation to reveal a structure comparable in size to government regulation of business. The book then goes on to show how internal government regulation grew in size despite the fact that public bureaucracy elsewhere were being sharply cutback. Given the limitations of orthodox constitutional checks on executive government, the courts and elected members of the legislature, regulation inside government deserves more attention than it has hitherto received. As one of the first comprehensive accounts of regulation inside government, this book begins to fill the gap.

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280

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OUP Oxford

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0191521221

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9780191521225

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services

By: Colin Fisher

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Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Values, Priorities and Markets in the Management of Public Services

By: Colin Fisher

In the public sector at the moment resources are scarce - or at the very least finite and limited - how they are allocated is therefore of crucial importance. This book analyses this process and examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic, including the role of markets and quasi-markets, in the delivery of public services. Topics discussed include: * whether people should be denied the public services they need because public bodies are short of money * what balance we should strike between markets and public organisations to provide public services * whether the use of markets has gone too far and whether we need to return to a public service ethic

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308

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Routledge

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113468309X

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9781134683093

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Values, Priorities, and Markets in the Management of Public Services

By: Colin M. Fisher

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Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Values, Priorities, and Markets in the Management of Public Services

By: Colin M. Fisher

What determines the allocation of resources in the public sector? This book examines the competing values that underlie the public service ethic including the role of markets and quasi-markets.

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332

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Psychology Press

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0415178746

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9780415178747

The Paradoxical Primate

By: Colin Talbot

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The Paradoxical Primate

By: Colin Talbot

Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences. It seeks to explain how human beings can appear to be so malleable in their nature, yet have an inherited set of behavioural instincts. When the founder of sociobiology, E.O. Wilson, made a plea for greater integration of the physical and human sciences in his book Consilience, there was an underlying assumption that the traffic would be mainly one way -- from physical to human science. This book reverses this assumption and draws on a new branch of human sciences, paradoxical systems theory, to reconceptualise some of the most innovative developments from physical sciences -- the related fields of evolutionary psychology, ethology, and behavioural genetics. The new approach is also applied to politics, economic and public policy approaches.

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Imprint Academic

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0907845851

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9780907845850

The Biology of Rocky Shores

By: Colin Little,J. A. Kitching

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The Biology of Rocky Shores

By: Colin Little,J. A. Kitching

This is an introduction to the study of marine rocky shores in the temperate zone. It is designed to encourage students and others to couple enormous intellectual rewards with the pleasure of working in some of the last easily accessible but relatively unspoilt places, and can be used as abasis for field courses, project work, or for lectures. Centred in North-West Europe, but using examples from all over the world, the book begins by considering the physical factors that characterize the habitat - primarily tides and waves - and goes on to assess how they influence the organisms that live within it. It describes how the behaviour andphysiology of individuals belonging to the major groups - algae, grazers, suspension feeders, and predators - are affected by their habitat, how their communities are structured, and discusses theories of community organization. For field courses, it suggests experiments and observations that can becarried out on the shore or in nearby laboratories. Finally, problems of pollution and conservation are considered in the context of their effects upon biodiversity.

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254

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198549350

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9780198549352

Jack the Ripper

The Theories & the Facts of the Whitechapel Murders

By: Colin Kendell

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Jack the Ripper

The Theories & the Facts of the Whitechapel Murders

By: Colin Kendell

Reassesses the evidence and unmasks the celebrated East End killer.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445615894

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9781445615899

Suburbanizing the Masses

Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective

By: Colin Divall,Winstan Bond

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Suburbanizing the Masses

Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective

By: Colin Divall,Winstan Bond

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and social evolution of towns and cities in various countries since the mid nineteenth century. Divided into two sections, the volume develops first the classic tradition on transport and the city, public transport's 'impact' on urban development. The contextualisation of transport is one important factor in the historical debates surrounding urban development. As well as analysing the discourse employed by urban political and business elites in favour of public transport, these contributions show the degree to which practice often fell short of ideals. The second section tackles the professional paradigms of urban transport: the circulation of traffic in cities and the technological modes appropriate to its realization. In particular these contributions explore the paradigms held by professional planners and managers, and the political classes associated with them. From a variety of perspectives Suburbanizing the Masses demonstrates the continuing relevance of socio-historical inquiry on the relationship between public transport and urban development. By differentiating between the many roles of urban transport in the nineteenth century, it confirms that public transport was not directly linked to urban growth, and instead often had only a limited effect on the wider urban structure. Suburbanizing the Masses forces a reassessment of the received historiography that maintains cheap public transport was essential to the spectacular growth of cites in the nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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1351776924

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9781351776929

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

By: Colin Larkin

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

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Omnibus Press

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0857125958

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9780857125958

Hangman's Brae

True Crime and Punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East

By: Colin Duncan,Norman Adams

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Hangman's Brae

True Crime and Punishment in Aberdeen and the North-East

By: Colin Duncan,Norman Adams

Hangman's Brae is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end of a rope or at the not so delicate hands of The Maiden, a gruesome decapitating device predating the French guillotine. The stories of the men who enforced the law and meted out sentences to the ne'er-do-wells who broke it can be just as interesting and memorable as those of the criminals and Norman Adams introduces the reader to some of them. Here you'll find some real characters such as the Aberdeenshire sheriff and criminal officer who always got his man - once spending two chilling nights chained to a brutal murderer and rapist. And it wasn't just hangings that these men had to perform - their grisly work also involved execution by beheading and drowning, often with some witch-burning for good measure. The many true-crime cases in this book shed new light on just how violent and bloody the north-east of Scotland's past was.

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Black & White Publishing

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1845026225

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9781845026226

The Me 262 Stormbird

From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It

By: Colin Heaton,Anne-Marie Lewis

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The Me 262 Stormbird

From the Pilots Who Flew, Fought, and Survived It

By: Colin Heaton,Anne-Marie Lewis

The Me 262 was the first of its kind, the first jet-powered aircraft. Although conceived before the war, with the initial plans being drawn in April 1939, the Stormbird was beset with technological (particularly the revolutionary engines) and political difficulties, resulting in it not entering combat until August 1944, with claims of nineteen downed Allied aircraft. The performance of the Me 262 so far exceeded that of Allied aircraft that on 1 Sepember 1944, USAAF General Carl Spaatz remarked that if greater numbers of German jets appeared, they could inflict losses heavy enough to force cancellation of the Allied daylight bombing offensive. The story of how the Stormbird came to be is fascinating history, and it comes to life in the hands of noted historian Colin Heaton. Told largely in the words of the German aces who flew it, The Me 262 Stormbird provides the complete history of this remarkable airplane from the drawing boards to combat in the skies over the Third Reich. Features two forewords, one by Jorg Czypionka, Me 262 night fighter pilot, and another by historian and author Barrett Tillman.

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Zenith Press

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1610584341

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The Treasury and Whitehall

The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

By: Colin Thain,Maurice Wright

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The Treasury and Whitehall

The Planning and Control of Public Expenditure, 1976-1993

By: Colin Thain,Maurice Wright

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Book's by Colin Thain

The Treasury and Whitehall

The Treasury and Whitehall

Theories of Performance

Theories of Performance

Regulation Inside Government

Regulation Inside Government

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

Resource Allocation in the Public Sector

The Paradoxical Primate

The Paradoxical Primate

The Biology of Rocky Shores

The Biology of Rocky Shores

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Suburbanizing the Masses

Suburbanizing the Masses

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Hangman's Brae

Hangman's Brae

The Me 262 Stormbird

The Me 262 Stormbird

The Treasury and Whitehall

The Treasury and Whitehall

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