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A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests
that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public
servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety
of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based on similar
policy developed in other jurisdictions and in the major
international organizations such as the WTO and the OECD. In other
words, significant aspects of nationally developed policies are
copied from elsewhere in what is described as a process of policy
transfer and learning. Hence, studies of policy transfer have
pointed to a distinct limitation in most existing theoretical and
empirical explanations as to how policy is made and implemented
through their neglect of the role of policy transfer and learning.
Moreover, policy transfer is not only a concern of academics, but a
growing concern for governments. The latter are concerned to
improve the performance of their policy and several have placed a
greater, more systematic focus on policy transfer as a means to
increasing performance. This book presents a variety of cases from
differing national and international contexts that enable a
valuable, comparative analysis that is absent from most literature
currently available and that suggest a number of exciting research
directions with implications for policy making, transference and
implementation in the future.
Designed to help managers in all public sector services to fund
their organizations to the greater benefit of their users, this
book draws extensively fron the authors' experience and in-depth
research into nine public sector organizations in the UK. With the
increased power of the consumer, highlighted by the introduction of
the Citizen's Charter, those in the public sector are finding
themselves accountable to a far wider audience. This book tackles
those problems in a clear and precise way. The reforms of the last
10 years in the public service sector mean that public sector
managers need to be able to make sense of the changes to approach
the future with confidence. Many organizations in the public sector
have been restructured to enable them to compete in the market
place effectively. Designed to help managers in all public services
to run their organizations to the greater benefit of their users,
this book draws extensively from the authors' experience and
in-depth research into nine public sector organizations in the UK:
* National Weights and Measures Laboratory * HMSO * Vehicle
Inspectorate * Warren Spring Laboratory * Companies House
Department of Social Security * Northampton Police * Kent Local
Education Authority * London Buses Ltd * With the increased power
of the consumer, highlighted by the introduction of the Citizen's
Charter, those in the public sector are finding themselves
accountable to a far wider audience. This book tackles those
problems in a clear and precise way. - Long Range Planning, April
1993
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