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The civil service in the United Kingdom is a system of government employees who are employed on a permanent basis and who are responsible for carrying out the policies of the government. The system has been subject to radical reforms in the past, most notably in the 1980s and 1990s, which have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures and replaced them with peripheral agencies concerned with policy-making. This article discusses these reforms in terms of the public choice and public management theories, which underpin them.
Keith Dowding provides an introduction to the civil service today which both describes its operation and places recent developments within a theoretical context, critically examining current theories of bureaucracy. The radical reforms of the 1980s and 90s have broken up the old unified hierarchical structures. In their place are peripheral agencies concerned with policy-making. Keith Dowding examines these reforms in terms of the public choice and public management theories which underpin them.
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