Description
Book SynopsisThis volume identifies the main changes in the British state since 1945 and evaluates their consequences. It provides students and practitioners with an understanding of the changing public sector and the relationship between these changes and the wider conduct of politics.
Trade Review"Combining case studies, general historical and institutional analysis and a sustained theoretical commentary, this book provides an excellent analysis of the postwar British state. It is an original and accessible study demonstrating how one really can "bring the state back in" to postwar economic, social and political analysis. This book should find a ready place on the reading lists of all those concerned with the development of the British state and postwar British politics."
Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster "A useful introduction ... The author combines a coherent conceptual overview with a careful exposition of such key issues as managerialsim, professionalism, and the rise of the 'new public management'. The book is to be recommended to an undergraduate audience." Political Studies
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables.
Introduction.
1. State Management and the Post-war Settlement.
2. State Management and Economic Policy from the 1940s to the 1970s.
3. Managing the British Welfare State.
4. Professional Interests and the British Welfare State.
5. The Emergence of 'New Managerialist' approaches towards the Civil Service in the Transition to Thatcherism.
6. The New Technologies of State Management.
7. Two Case Studies of the Changing British State: Youth Training and the Instruments of Urban Intervention.
8. The British State: Interpretations and Prospects.
Bibliography.
General Index.
Author Index.
