The Growth of Local Quangos
Payne T, Skelcher C
Public Administration, (UK), Summer 97 (75/2)
Start page: 207 No of pages: 18
Looks at why there should have been such an increase in the number of appointed local bodies in the UK, such as health commissions, city technology colleges and Training and Enterprise Councils. Considers four explanations: agency-type, which identifies a number of reasons for the growth; the desire of central government to extend its ideological influence over public activities; the restructuring of the state according to a managerialist model; and regulationist explanations, which see the expansion as part of the need to find new institutions to regulate the changed social and political structures that have come about. Assesses the validity of these explanations, rejecting each as a possible explanation on its own. Prefers a framework which integrates three of them – placing the ideological and managerialist explanations in the context of the regulationist approach. Uses this framework to explain the development of the different types of quango over the past 30 years.
Subject(s): QUANGOS, GROWTH, UNITED KINGDOM, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Database: TMA: Top Management Abstracts
Style: Wholly theoretical
Indicators: Research Implication- **, Practice Implication- *, Originality- *, Readability- **, Total Number- ****** Reference: 26AY084
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